turkey

Period 1

Middle east 

Anatolian peninsula 

Asia Minor

The Bosphorus Strait - a strip of water that divides Europe and Asia 

Context behind Crusades 

• The Seljuk Turks and the Crudesa

• 1096 the seljuk turks conquer the Christian city of Jerusalem which angers christian europe and leads to 100s of years of warfare between them and the Muslims for control of the holy land

• Begins the rivalry between Christianity and Islam

• Also allows for much greater cultural diffusion since Europeans who venture into the middle east bring back the new products from the silk road and Indian Ocean trading network  

Period 2 and Period 3

See the Ottoman Empire! 

Period 4

World War I

• Ottoman empire falls and many people of Turk ethnicity want their own country

• Leda by Turkish nationalists called the young Turks 

Interwar years 

• 1923 Turkey is given its independence after being a member of the mandate system

• The first president/leader of Turkey is Mustafa Kemal aka Ataturk

• Father of all Turks  

• Transforms Muslim majority Turkey into a pro-western style country whose reforms include

• Western-style dressing, instituting an enlightenment-based constitution and laws, western style education, women having more rights 

Cold War -  Turkey is a member of NATO