Timeline Middle East/ Western Problems

  • Creation of Islam
    Jun 1, 622

    Creation of Islam

    Islamic was that we were created from Allah.
  • Period: Jun 1, 622 to

    Timespan

  • Battle of Tour
    Oct 10, 732

    Battle of Tour

    Crusade for land, battle with Charles Martel.
  • Crusades
    Nov 9, 1095

    Crusades

    The Christian powers of Europe to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims.
  • Ottoman Empire
    Oct 22, 1299

    Ottoman Empire

    One of the largest and longest lasting Empires in history, inspired and sustained by Islam, and Islamic institutions.
  • Battle of Kosovo
    Jul 13, 1389

    Battle of Kosovo

    This battle, led to three centuries of Serbian vassalage, and has remained a central event in Serbian history.
  • Otoman Empire (Taking of Constantinople)
    May 9, 1453

    Otoman Empire (Taking of Constantinople)

    The city fell in 53 days, the Ottoman rejoiced in having conquered what they regarded as the capital of Christendom, and then they where granted extensive privileges to the defeated Greeks and their patriarch.
  • Ottoman Empire (Height of the Empire)
    Oct 22, 1500

    Ottoman Empire (Height of the Empire)

    613,000 square miles (986,000 sq. km) Long
  • Zionism

    Zionism

    This was a Jewish movement that started in the late nineteenth century in response to growing anti-Semitism and sought to reestablish a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
  • Ottoman Empire (The End of the Empire)

    Ottoman Empire (The End of the Empire)

    Sultan's power over his Mohammedan empire was severally curtailed with his supremacy being taken over by a coalition of Christian powers
  • Crimean War

    Crimean War

    After the Napoleonic wars, the Great Powers assembled in Vienna to restore the European state system. A delicate balance between the various major and minor powers that restrained aggression by the mighty, and upheld the rights of the weak. They hoped to build a permanent peace by suppressing revolutionary republics and upholding stable.
  • Suez Canal

    Suez Canal

    It connects the Nile River in Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. The first canal in the area was constructed between the Nile River delta and the Red Sea in the Thirteenth century B.E.C. The original canal was neglected and its use finally stopped in the 8th Century, during the 1000 years of construction.
  • Diaspora

    Diaspora

    This means a dispersion of Jews outside of Israel from the sixth century B.C., when they were exiled to Babylonia, until the present time.
  • Kemal Attuturk

    Kemal Attuturk

    He was the founder of modern day Turkey and was born at Salonika, Greece- then part of the Ottoman Empire. Then he was elected Turkey’s first president after ledding the Turkish revolution after WWI. Then at Istanbul, on Nov 10, 1938 he died.
  • Balfour Declaration

    Balfour Declaration

    Statement issued by the British foreign secretary, promised the establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine that would not disturb the non-Jewish groups already residing there.
  • WWI mandates

    WWI mandates

    Until World War I, the victors of most European wars took control of conquered territories as called the spoils of victory. This caused a significant break in this tradition during World War I.
  • Creation of Israel

    Creation of Israel

    Great Britian US and France declared the Balfour document stating that they support a Jewish homeland.