Land cultivation, animal husbandry and handicrafts flourished in the empire. Merchants traded not only with Byzantium, but also with the Arab-Persian world and the distant East. The kagans did not prohibit the activities of Christian and Moslem missionaries. Both religions maintained places or ...
involvement in the Balkans (when the British were more imperative for U.S. President Bill Clinton to "bring In the Sudan-Eritrea conflict in Africa, the entire playing the Ottoman Empire off against Russia), in wars Russia and relevant nations of Western Europe into the strategy of the ...