Destiny Disrupted

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Enter the Turks 120-487 AH 737-1095 CE W HAT GAVE RISE to all the anxiety? The answer lies in the political story unfolding alon ...

118 DESTINY DISRUPTED deeply and rippled far. Even the Hindus of the Indian heartland were weakening. Even sub-Saharan Africa ha ...

ENTER THE TURKS 119 had some half a million inhabitants and boasted hundreds of bathhouses, hospitals, schools, mosques, and oth ...

120 DESTINY DISRUPTED The story of King Sancho illustrates how the various communities got along. In the late tenth century CE, ...

ENTER THE TURKS 121 The Three Khalifates cities, busy bazaars, liberal policies, lots of cultural and intellectual activity- was ...

122 DESTINY DISRUPTED dog. In Rome, this group was called the Praetorian Guard, and it was (ironically) well staffed with German ...

ENTER THE TURKS 123 itary title. (A similar thing happened in the Germanic kingdoms of Europe where a similar officer, the "mayo ...

124 DESTINY DISRUPTED waste to crops. The highways grew unsafe, small-time banditry became rife, trade declined, poverty spread. ...

ENTER THE TURKS 125 sand couplets. "Did I say gold?" the sultan frowned. "I meant to say silver. One piece of silver for each co ...

126 DESTINY DISRUPTED Masud himself was a formidable specimen of a man. Too heavy for most horses, he customarily rode an elepha ...

ENTER THE TURKS 127 In 1053 CE, a young Seljuk prince was sent to govern the province of Khorasan. His name was Alp Arslan, whic ...

128 DESTINY DISRUPTED Seljuk Empire: The Turks Invade the Islamic World Nizam al-Mulk to organizing their conquests. There was m ...

ENTER THE TURKS 129 gious doctrine, and the Persians would contribute all the remaining arts of civilization-administration, phi ...

130 DESTINY DISRUPTED an army. How Sabbah conquered it, no one knows. Some legends say trickery was involved, some that he used ...

ENTER THE TURKS 131 The Assassins were organized as the ultimate secret society. Out in the world, they gave no indication of th ...

132 DESTINY DISRUPTED Then in 1092 they murdered the recently retired Nizam al-Mulk him- sel£ Scarcely a month later, they dispa ...

Havoc 474-783 AH 1081-1381 CE ASSAULT FROM THE WEST Really, there were two catastrophes, one little, one big. The little one cam ...

134 DESTINY DISRUPTED dawn to dark just to scratch up enough food to keep from starving and support a thin upper class of milita ...

HAVOC 135 traded with peasants who had a surplus of something else. As the goods they had access to grew more various and more a ...