How Fabulous is Prince Ali?

Today was a little helter-skelter (if you don't know what that means, look it up, and no, it's not a reference to the Beatles song) with trying to wrap up the class notes over the Islamic Empires, taking yearbook pictures, and then flying through the European empires map activity. If you felt rushed, here are some things we would have liked for you to have taken away from class:

• The Mughals and Ottomans, much like the other Early Modern states, developed centralized empires by appointing "qualified" individuals (noblemen, scholar-bureaucrats, or representatives from the middle class) in ministerial positions and expanded their empires through the use of military force. 
• The Europeans created a series of sea-based empires in the Americas and Asia (the color coded map has been uploaded to the class website).

Jafar, the Grand Vizier from the OttoMughAbbasid Empire...seriously, when is Aladdin set?!

Man, so those Ottomans were really cutthroat when it came to maintaining power...murdering or imprisoning your brothers to prevent coups? If you're still struggling with the Islamic Empires and class notes weren't enough, you can consult Chapter 27 in your WHAP textbook.

If you're into Sunday brunch at all, here's one of Siddiqui's Unbelievable and Prepossessing Eating Recommendations, or as I'll now refer to them as, SUPERs - St. Martin's Bistro in Lower Greenville.  It seems like a really classy and pretentious restaurant, but it's delicious and prices are really reasonable! I've been there twice now and can't recommend it enough, especially when you're hangry. So take Grandma (not mine, because she's mine) there this Sunday for the long weekend. 

You know what's frustrating? When you're trying to text the word to and you accidentally type in a y instead of a t and it doesn't autocorrect.  Yes, Phone, because I use the word yo so often. Smh, yo. 

Do you need a quick break from it all? See if you can do nothing for two minutes. It's hard, isn't it?

- Warrior Princess Siddiqui