During the reign of Murad I in thirteen eighty-three AD, the practice of conscription of Christian boys began as method of developing a political and military hierarchy within the Ottoman Empire. From a very young age, boys would be converted to Islam and then trained in the Palace schools. The children would be tested and placed in a special school to develop their individual skills and strengths to serve in multiple positions in the Ottoman government. ... He went as far as declaring that the treatment of Jews would be equal to that of Muslims and Christians and executed anyone caught abusin...

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., 2004) They encouraged thought and creativity by building schools and hospitals. ... The sultans of the 1400s created a military system that drafted young boys from Christian families and made them legally the slaves of the sultan. ... Ottoman rule was easy for Christian communities to accept because it did not disrupt their belief system. ... Muslims recognized the Jews and Christians, since their religion was based upon the same biblical tradition as Islam. ...

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It was the first ever Christian empire its capital was Constantinople, now known as Istanbul. ... Early Byzantine art must be considered in relation to the Early Christian condemnation of pagan worship, and the following reluctance to depict sacred Christian figures and stories. ... "Byzantine art can clearly be seen in direct relation to foreign ideas and radically different styles, both architectural and artistic."1 Byzantine artist continued that which his predecessor had taught him, demonstrating the style of a particular region or school. ...

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The Ottoman Empire emerged from a group of ghazis, Muslim warriors, who waged war against Byzantine Christians in an effort to expand the domain of Islam. ... Establishing mosques, bureaucratic institutions and madrasahs, Islamic schools, the Ottoman Empire was stabilizing as it grew. ... In fact, when Spain was reconquered by the Christians, many Jews fled to remain under the umbrella of Ottoman rule. ... Under Ottoman control, Christians and Jews were granted millet status. ...

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In the early 4th century AD, Tiridates converted to Christianity even before Constantine of the Byzantine Empire, establishing the first officially Christian state religion. ... Between 1894 and 1896, hundreds of thousands of Armenians were massacred by Ottoman forces, and the Russian government closed Armenian schools and seized church property until 1905 when they got tired of Armenian armed resistance. ... Other secular Muslim nations such as Turkey also closed borders with predominantly Christian Armenia. ...

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