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The Crimean War alliance is presented as a financial trap: British and French support helped the Ottomans militarily but saddled them with debt and foreign tax administration.
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Ottoman Empire
Nationalism makes multi-ethnic empires such as the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires untenable, leading Balkan and Slavic national struggles into the chain that starts World War I.
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Nationalism makes multi-ethnic empires such as the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires untenable, leading Balkan and Slavic national struggles into the chain that starts World War I.
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Spain's search for maritime routes is framed as a response to Christian reconquest, loss of Islamic trade integration, and Ottoman control of the old routes through Constantinople.
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War with the Ottoman Empire and the age of exploration pushed European science because conquest required navigation tools, compasses, and astrolabes.
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Newton is described as a Christian Zionist because he believed Jesus's return required conditions, including the return of Jews to Jerusalem under Ottoman control.
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The Balfour Declaration is framed as part of a longer Christian Zionist project to bring Jews back to Jerusalem after the Ottoman Empire's defeat.
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"And this was the Ottoman Empire at its height in 1683. Remember, in 1666 is when Sabrelai Zevi declared himself the Messiah. And remember..."
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"...now on, a third of all revenue, tax revenue, that the Ottoman Empire generated would go directly to the French and British bankers. And..."
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"...the nation -state and of nationalism. Okay? So, this is the Ottoman Empire. They're based in Istanbul. Okay? But they also occupy what we..."
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"it may surprise you to hear, like, most of its history, the Greeks didn't consider themselves as one people, as one culture, as one..."
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"Right? Which brings the Austria -Hungary Empire into direct conflict with Russia. Which then brings in Britain and Russia, sorry, which brings in Britain..."
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"...the Islamic world. Also, at this particular time in history, the Ottoman Empire is rising in power. And what's really"
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"important is that in 1453, they conquer Constantinople, which was the seat of the Eastern Roman Empire. And so now, for the Europeans to..."
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"The Ottoman Empire, which is, at this point, the strongest empire in the world. All right? And the last idea that's driving science is..."
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"He was convinced that Jesus will return. I mean, these are all Christians at this point, right? He was actually convinced that Jesus will..."
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"OK? He was actually convinced that we had to get all the world's Jews and return them to Jerusalem, OK? Only problem was Jews..."
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"And he was the representative. He was the representative of God on Earth. He was here on a divine mission. So he was part..."
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"World War I, when the Ottoman Empire was defeated, the British Empire now gives permission to all the Jews in the world to return..."
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