Synopisis for Lockdown Lecture, 27th November
Taking Stock
We all know, what they could only guess at: World War One
Wider still and wider: Breaches to Monroe Doctrine
Growing Strength: Immigration statistics, Western Expansion, Industrial Development
Corruption becomes a serious issue
1900 itself: Old Problems and New Challenges from The White South to China
1901 A new century dawns
Lockdown Lecture Mon 29 April Hollywood Blockbuster Opening! Who were the Ottomans? Gradual creation of an Euro-Asian Empire The great Prize of Constantinople is seized in 1453 Mehmet II: A Renaissanc
The Rise and Fall of The Byzantine Empire Founding of Constantinople on site of older Byzantium Fall of Western Roman Empire, Survival of Eastern Empire (Byzantine) Christianity later divides between
From the The Rise of Islam to the Crusading Centuries The Pre Islamic Arabs Origins-Language-Tribal Societies- Attitude of Byzantines and Persians- Jewish contact in Book of Nehemiah Mohammed Early L