Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Othello Journal #2 --- Cyprus

Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean that was 80% Greek and 20% Turkish. In the 16th century, many of the island's crops were ruined by American competition in the Mediterranean, where the busy waters became neglected, passing by Cyprus completely. During this time period, there were many tax-revolts which united the Greeks and Turks against the government.


My comments on other people's blogs:
Katie-Jo Dacey said...
That's terrible!! I wonder how common epilepsy was among people back then, I feel bad for them; they can't even control it and they're accused of being possessed by Satan...

I think it's interesting how generic and widespread the term "Moor" was. It is used to describe a lot of different ethnic groups.

Hmm.. I read something that said that the Cyprus and the Greeks joined forces many times against the government, not that they were fighting against each other. Weird...




6 comments:

  1. How were the crops ruined by Americans?

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  2. That is horrible what the Americans did. But how were the crops ruined?

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  3. That'a awful that all of their crops were ruined, now I feeel bad for all the people who lived on Cyprus

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  4. I find it interesting that Cyprus was made up of 80% Greek and 20% Turks when Shakespere seems to only focus on the Turks population... I also whould like to know what the term American means, because there was no true America until a century later...

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  5. that's interesting because i thought Cyprus was alot smaller than you described it. i'm also surprised that there was a fair amount of turkish people living there. i wonder how the Turks in Cyprus felt when they other Turks came and invaded.

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