If only they understood that the sun does not perish or disappear when the mirror does, they would direct their love only to the sun itself. Why and how civilizations rise and fall is a hard question to answer. To do so, one must understand the civilization and the time in which it began to rise. Jason Goodwin, an English journalist, uses memoirs of European visitors and standard histories to explore the 600-year existence of the Ottoman Empire. The word 'Ottoman' does not describe a place.
Nobody nowadays speaks their language.
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