Book Club Event on 11/06/2021: Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World by Hugh Pope

[Eugene]

Event is on November 6th, 2021. 4pm EST.
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This book was suggested by Martha

ISBN: 9780715633687 (Originally listed edition)
ISBN: 9781585678044 (Edition I am Using)

While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book?
•Who are the Turkic people?
•What role does military play in the Turkic societies?
•What are the relations between Turkic people and other? With China? With Russia? With the US? People within their communities?
•How do family ties influence communities?
•Is Turkic culture entrepreneurial?
•How is trade perceived?
•How is dissent handled?
•How did the historic Ottoman Empire influence contemporary situations?
•Are Turkic communities changing?
•How does the EU and Turkey perceive each other?

Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.

My review of the book:
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Summary from Goodreads:
Wall Street Journal correspondent Hugh Pope provides a vivid picture of the descendants of the nomad armies who once conquered China and the Byzantine Empire. He shows the myriad connections that live on between Turks in the Xinjiang province of western China (one of that country's few remaining bastions of rebellion), through Central Asia, Iran, Iraq, the Netherlands, Germany (where Turkish can be heard on every other street corner of Berlin), and all the way to the Appalachian Mountains of the United States. Along the way he reassesses a history in which Islamic lands were ruled by Turkic dynasties - before their ascendancy was broken by the rising power of Europe, Russia, and China - among them the Moguls, who conquered India, the Safavids, who laid the foundations of modern Iran, and the Ottomans, whose five-century-long empire encompassed Turkey, the Balkans, and the Middle East.