The Armenians

Gaven MannHarvir Bains The Armenians History Stem from the Babylonians Only surviving group from ancient Mesopotamia Term Arminian first appeared in Assyrian writing in the 9th century

BeliefsCall themselves the haia Believe that they descent from Haik (Grandson of Noah) Haik slayed Babylonian lord Establishes Arminian State CappadociaFrom there, moves to Eastern Turkey During 7th and 8th century

Geography of ArmeniansLocation: Southwestern Asia, east of Turkey No coastline (landlocked)Hot summers, cold winters Occasionally severe earthquakes, droughts

Early kingdom First Kingdom appeared around Lake Van in 13th centuryCalled AraratEmpire influenced the Greeks and the PersiansKingdom falls because of raidsAssyrians, Medes and Scythians

Genocide Estimated One and Half Million perished between 1915 and 1923 Done by Turks to try to make their empire as singular as possibleSubject to massacres, starvation, deportation, abduction and tortureCelebrated on April 24thDay in which 200 high ranking Armenians were massacred

Armenian Religion94% of all Armenians are believers of ChristianityIn 301, became the first state to make Christianity the religion of the stateWere believers of Paganism before thisKing of Persia in 5th centuryArmenians to renounce Christ and embrace ZoroastrianismArmenians fought to preserve their faithWere under the control of Islamic heavy empire for long time then the Russians and Turks

Armenian Culture14,000 written Armenian documents in a LibraryAt Institute of Ancient Manuscripts with some from 5th centurySociety is some kind of Hellenistic with influenced gathered through the people that ruled themChristians for textArabs and their textilesRussians and their languageAdopted Turk custom during the Turks reign

Nothing New 1894 and 1896 over 100,000 inhabitants of Armenian villages by the KingdomYoung Armenians wanted social reformTurks take over with Armenian supportTurks were Muslim and conflicted with Christian Armenians -Led to attacks against

During WWISided with Germany and Austria HungaryGave them an opportunity to get rid of the powerful Armenians Nobody paid any attention to the genocide To focused on the warDisarmed all of Armenians with excuse of treasonPut into slave labor battalions Half a million perished between 1915-23

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