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Turkic History: 2/3 - PolledHistory

 Hello! This is rhe first blog outside ReformedChildren to be posted since the new schedule change.  This episode will continue the series and cover from the end of the turkic migrations until the Fall of Constantinople. In the early 11th century, a Turkic chieftain known as Tughril, now a Muslim, began to conquer large swathes of territory in Persia and Turkmenistan , quickly taking good parts of the Middle East and forming the Seljuk Empire centered around the city of Ishafan, modern day Iran. His sucessors made conquests west, defeating the Byzantine empire at Manzikert (1071) which asserted control over Turkey and taking Jerusalem from the Fatimids, and blocked Christian pilgrimage there. This prohibition caused the Byzantine emperor Alexios to call for European support in retaking lost regions, including Anatolia and Jerusalem. The First Crusade was launched and Jerusalem fell. The Seljuks stopped making much conquests they began to decline (a common theme of quickly decl...
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PolledHistory: Turkic History 1/3

 Hello! Because  no one voted, I randomly chose the third option, Turkic history. I forgot to write yesterday. The Turks are a very influential people and ethnicity in history, especially in Northeast Asia, Central Asia, Middle East, and parts of Europe. They  had effect everywhere, and were especially militarily strong, with their effect ranging from the Han Dynasty to Balkan politics in the modern era until the present day. Turkic people are distinguished from Turkish people, though Turkiye/Turkey is a turkic nation. The most famous event of the Turks as their migration from East and Central Asia to further west into Central Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe and Africa. However, they exised before their migration mostly in modern day Mongolia, parts of Russia, and the surroundings. Today, we will cover the Turks before the migration. The Xiongnu also became the Huns, a similar group to the Turks, which went everywhere, some like the Hephtalites attacking Persia ...
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PolledHistory: New Years Poll

 Hello! I forgot to put the poll yesterday, so I'll just put the poll today and the history will be next week. https://forms.gle/dfeDBbsb6x4HmyJm7
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PolledHistory: Weekly Voted: History of Settlements and Citie

 I forgot to put the vote in the end of last time's blog. So, I will do a non-series post this time and then have a vote for a series in the bottom of this post. Also, I think that the Friday nonvote series is discontinued, at least for now.  At first, people were migratory and nomadic, but eventually started to settle down in settlements, the first of which known is Geobekli Tepe i  modern day Turkey. Many more began to appear everywhere, expanding into societies and cities. Often, they were located on rich areas, such as on the banks of a river. In the ancient era, there were three major pockets of civilization: the Mediterranean-Near East, South Asia, and East Asia, particularly China. Here, massive cities formed, notable ones including Babylon (Mediterranean-Near East), Carthage (Mediterranean-Near East), Luoyang (East Asia) and later Alexandria (mediterranean), Pataliputra (south asian), Rome, etc. During the first few centuries AD, cities maxed out at 600 thousand p...
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PolledHistory: VS Roman History 3/3 (476-1453AD)

 Hello! Today is the third third of the Roman history series and the longest - under a millenium long, and comprising of 44.2% of the entire Roman timeline. This period was the Eastern Roman period, following the Fall of the Western Roman Empire and before the Fall of the east 950+ years later. This will be quite quick and broad of the large time period. Following the "Fall of Rome" in 476, Rome did not really fall. The eastern half remained territorially untouched following the Fall of Rome. The eastern half was ruled by a man named Zeno during the time of the fall of Rome. Anastasius succeeded him and was known for expanding the empire's wealth. Following him, the Justinian dynasty took power, starting with Justin I, who also enlarged the empire's wealth. Justinian would spend most of the empire's earning after expensive wars that reclaimed Italy and North Africa after the Fall of the West. The Justinian Plague really exhausted these wars, making the empire weak...
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PolledHistory: Weekly, Non-Vote: History of Walls

(idea and source: geohistory) Hello! Walls has always been a staple defensive structure in history. They have been around in some form or another for a long time. Its use and strength has changed a lot throughout the course of time.  Already in the beginnings of settled civilization and when the first true permenant settlements were established, protective walls made of sun-dried mudbrick were built both around their townships and also religious/ritual sites. These more civilized people built longer fortifications, such as the one built by Shulgi of Ur to fend off the Amorites off the Sumerian land. Said fortifications remain short.Walls are also erected for other uses, such as friendlier borders. City walls in the Middle East are particularly impressive. Later on, Babylon had a wall of 97 meters high, while Uruk had a wall of about 55 meters high. Practically everywhere in the Near East had some form of defensive wall.  By 221 BC, the famous Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty o...
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PolledHistory: VS Roman History - Part 2/3 (27 BC-476AD)

 Hello! Today's portion regards the period of an "united" Rome and also the divided Roman Empire which ends in 476 AD. This period is 23% of Roman history and the most popular of the three divisions of Roman history. In 27 BC, following a victory in Actium, Greece, Augustus (and Agrippa, a skilled commander) chased out Marc Antony, who he was fighting a civil war against, and took over Egypt after they died, which was after the Battle of Alexandria, which was a victory for Augustus. Augustus became "emperor" or "princeps" of Rome, but did not proclaim himself as "king", because the Romans despised said title due to the scandal of the last king of Rome who was deposed in 509 BC. However, Augustus was basically, and quintessentially, a king.  Augustus ruled 41 years, where the boundaries expanded, power strengthened, and ultimately, the Pax Romana - a period of Roman relative peace and prosperity was established. The most famous event associate...
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