The Armenian Genocide was a mass killing of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I, from 1915 to 1923.
Imagine if your entire neighborhood was suddenly targeted and forced out of their homes, with many not surviving the ordeal. That's similar to what happened during the Armenian Genocide, but on a much larger scale involving an entire ethnic group.
Genocide: This is the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular ethnic or national group.
Ottoman Empire: A state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries. It was founded at the end of the 13th century in northwestern Anatolia in the town of Söğüt by its eponymous founder Osman I.
World War I: A global war originating in Europe that lasted from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918. Contemporaneously known as "The Great War" or "the war to end all wars", it led to mobilization of more than 70 million military personnel including around sixty million Europeans making it one of largest wars in history.
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