This module introduces students to the world of European ideas between the late Renaissance and the early Enlightenment – roughly the period from 1550 to 1750. Through the close ... the histories of ...

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How did the powerful Ottoman Empire manage to conquer Egypt a major Mamluk stronghold in just one year? This video explores the military strategy, political maneuvering, and key battles behind the ...

While the Humayun Nama is a brilliant display of her impeccable penmanship, there is a little know tale about her single-handedly taking on the might of the Ottoman Empire– the powerful ...

Despite the recent souring of ties triggered by Ankara’s support to Pakistan during the latest round of India-Pakistan tensions, the relations between India and Turkey stretch back centuries, to ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

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But it was the 1980 sequel, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, which is 45 this month, that turned this stand-alone success into an enduring pop-culture phenomenon. And it almost ...

A procession of gods marches across the wall of what may have been a royal mausoleum near Hattusa, capital of the lost Hittite Empire. The ancient city—in what is today central Türkiye—was ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes it's his destiny to recreate the Russian empire and won't back down in Ukraine, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in an interview with "Face the ...