Marked Constantinople

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Armenian genocide

During the First World War, the Ottoman government deported Armenians from Anatolia and killed many hundreds of thousands in massacres and death marches into the Syrian desert. Most historians call it a genocide; the Turkish state does not.

Place
Constantinople · Van · Deir ez-ZorThe Middle East
Laid out as
A theme across timeOne idea followed through the eras it crosses.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IArmenians in the Ottoman empire
  2. II24 April 1915
  3. IIIThe death marches
  4. IVWitnesses and rescuers
  5. VSurvivors and the diaspora
  6. VIRecognition and denial

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Henry Morgenthau Sr.
  • Aurora Mardiganian
  • Raphael Lemkin

Objects

  • Survivor testimonies
  • Photographs by Armin T. Wegner

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1915 to 1923. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?