Has the Middle East ever been at Peace? | History of the Middle East 1600-1800 - 4/21

[alioshax]

I think people forget how recent is the idea of a long-lasting peace anywhere in the world. Up until the begining of the XIXth century, the whole world was in constant warfare. Even during "peacetimes" when no major power would fight eachothers, civil wars, small raids, baron's petty struggles, local banditry and factions rivalery were the norm.

[vangelisskia]

Most Janissaries were from the Balkan peninsula (Slavs, Greeks and Albanians) and not Georgians or Circassians. The Mameluks were indeed mainly from the Caucasus region but not the Janissaries.

[anggi]

We can actually use the same question for Europe as well. I bought an encyclopedia of world history from a second hand book shop. I was surprised on how much of that thick book is just about the conflicts in Europe.

[christianweibrecht]

really surprising how little control the ottomans had over their ME territory

[konstantinriumin]

Imagine living in a big city in a big empire and starving to death because some desert raiders just sacked all villages around (certified Ottoman moment)

[anthonyrinaldi]

Hard to be a peace when you in the middle of the world continent.

[TheEmiljoergensen]

In your last videos I notice you including more n more time-/place-markers like pointing out cities, regions, time intervals or people via visuals. This is so incredibly helpful. Just know every time you put one in it really helps me not lose track of where we are/what's happening + gives context for those of us not too familiar with arabic place-names eg.

Also thank you for yet another incrrredibly both compact and somehow still thorough overview of a part of history which is so overlooked (especially considering how modern problems can be much better understood through it). I have no idea how you research this much this fast, same with the China series, truly impressive.

[theskycavedin]

What excellent timing. This video could not be more relevant.

[Gargoiling]

In the later 1600s, London was struck by the Great Plague which killed a quarter of the population and was only the most virulent of a number of outbreaks over the century. The Great Fire of London burned down sixty percent of the city in 1666. The Little Ice Age, peaking from 1649-1666, meant that frost fairs could be held on the Thames. Oh, and the Dutch sailed up the Medway, humiliating the British Navy.

And this was the period when it really took off.

If a town is on the up, it takes a lot of stopping.

[nSikandar]

Wow what a treat, a 15 part series and incredibly topical

[tahaaydin]

Ottoman autonomy was crucial at the beginning of their journey. They started as a single village to get larger you need soldiers.the tolerance that they have allowed them to get locals to support their cause even though they are orthodox Greek and Slavs

[ChanceKearns]

There is a dark irony that a conflict in the middle east erupted in the middle of this series

[Game_Hero]

Now I get why the Thousand and One nights are filled with betrayal, especially from vizirs.

[nicbahtin]

Damn it's hard to believe this is all one empire. They are litterly at war with it self. Forget peace first have law and order

[BallawdeQuincewold]

These videos are invaluable. Keep it up!

[Killersanchez]

I really enjoyed the video. It would help us better understand your presentation if you add labels of where the even is located or even a zoomed in area like damascus or raqqa.

[cyrusthegreat]

Achieving peace in Middle East is a miracle!

[Jalayir]

In the social hierarchy there were clear distinctions of status and power between “ Turks ” ( atrak ), the term usually applied by native Egyptian writers to both Ottomans and Mamluks, and the Arabic - speaking indigenous population whom those in power often lumped together as " peasants " ( fallahin ) regardless of occu- pation or residence . Whereas Egyptian writers sometimes casti- gated the " Turks " as bad Muslims due to the often unruly behavior of the Ottoman forces garrisoning Egypt, the “ Turks ” in turn regarded native Egyptians as a servile population unfit for politics or war .
In the contemptuous words of one Ottoman governor, " I will not give [ military ] salaries to fallahin . Salaries are for the Turks . " 3 From the Egyptian side literary works from both the Mamluk and Ottoman eras indicate that literate Egyptians had not totally submerged their identity within Islam, but retained an awareness of Egypt's distinctiveness as a uniquely fertile region of the Muslim world, as a land of great historical antiquity and splendor, and more recently as a citadel of Islam against external assault .

Egypt: A Short History James P. Jankowski · 2000 · p.60, 61

[jackholt]

It's kinda funny that the guy who thought himself as the messiah was arrested 1666

[HandiasTobil]

you could have 100x more views by counting each infractions for each sides and adding PING soundeffect each time you counted.