Wrap Up Blog

This class was actually one of the tougher ones I have take in my years in college.  I am about 2 weeks away from graduation and it has amazed me throughout how little I knew about the Middle-East.  I am a History minor and most of my courses have been centered around US/European History with some Latin America sprinkled in.  The Middle East was totally left out of my curriculum until this year.  The history of the Middle East is a deep, rich one.  There are so many different places, events and people that make up the history of the Middle East.  I never realized how many different battles there were and how strong some of the empires were.  The Ottoman Empire for example was one of the strongest, fiercest empires of all time!  I never knew how well trained their militaries were and how they even used muskets and gun powder before most other nations.  The second major thing that I learned was about the Armenian Genocide.  I had never heard about it until this semester.  To know that this event preceded what went on in Nazi Germany truly boggles my mind.  This was just as heinous an act as anything in history!  You would think that people would've have risen up after the Armenian Genocide and not let something so bad happen in Nazi Germany.  You hear so much about the Holocaust, but not much about the Armenian Genocide.  I'm not saying people should hear about the Holocaust less, I am just saying that the Armenian Genocide deserves more attention then it gets.  Overall, there was a lot of reading and work in this class, but after finishing up everything it seems pretty satisfying to learn some new stuff I didn't know before.