HIST 1011 Lecture 17: The-Age-of-Revolution-and-Emancipation-III
Document Summary
Creoles and peninsulares: spain did not always do things that are economically good (wanted things to go through peru to reach. 1850 convert to monarchy and kingdom: latin american states were republics, garibaldi spent time in latin america and soaks up republican culture and bring to italy. Rise of russia and technological backwardness of ottoman wanted to take constantinople: 1786 loss of crimea to russia (longer ottoman than russian) Janissary corps: convert to islam and make into soldiers: became hereditary rather than legal kidnapping, powerful within empire, militarily conservative, not wishing to modernize because too much work. Ottoman modernization: 1807 sultan tried to modernize and janissary revolt and overthrew sultan. Janissary continued to refuse reform and someone brought european trains and massacred all janissary (auspicious incident) In 17th most in 18th century this was not a huge problem for ottoman religious toleration and cooperation: ethnic groups wanted independence as ottomans decline.
