reaserch assignment #1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide

i know, i know when you see this your gonna be like "why is he using Wikipedia?!" because it is a good starting point to learn a little bit about a topic i and many other people know about. so the Armenian genocide was, well a genocide. genocide is the systematic killing and destroying of a race, religion, ect... so that means that the holocaust was a genocide and a very terrible one at that, but it wasn't the first. the Armenian genocide was one of the first genocides. it started up in Armenia where the Ottoman empire started a genocide against the Armenians. it basically was the inspiration for the holocaust. 1.5 million people died and i bet you that half of Americans half no clue what it was. one of the most outraging events in this genocide is the deportations in Constantinople. what happened was that many leaders from Armenia were in Constantinople doing something when the ottomans came and arrested them and then later deported them. and it also had all of the best from the holocaust including burnings, gasing, death marches and last but not least concentration camps.

i also used the world book Armenian genocide but it gave me the same info so i just combined the stuff into one.