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Oswald Spengler was a German historian and philosopher best known for The Decline of the West, published in two volumes beginning in 1918. He presented civilizations as cultural organisms that pass through recurring phases of growth, maturity, and decline, an approach that challenged linear accounts...
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Huge public influence and ambitious civilizational theory; widely criticized by historians for determinism and weak evidence.
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Abdul Hamid II was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, ruling from 1876 until his deposition in 1909. He promulgated the Ottoman constitution in 1876 but suspended it and parliament in 1878, then governed through a centralized autocratic system while emphasizing his position as caliph. His reign...
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Autocratic rule, massacres, censorship, and imperial decline dominate despite infrastructure modernization.
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