THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE Introduction The Ottoman Empire was the one of the largest and longest lasting Empires in history. It was an empire inspired and sustained by Islam‚ and Islamic institutions. It replaced the Byzantine Empire as the major power in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Ottoman Empire reached its height under Suleiman the Magnificent (reigned 1520-66)‚ when it expanded to cover the Balkans and Hungary‚ and reached the gates of Vienna. The Empire began to decline after being defeated
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If you know much about the Ottoman Empire‚ you know that they are usually considered a tolerant society. But what was it exactly that made them such a tolerant society? You can’t specify one or two things that they did‚ because they did a lot that could be considered tolerance‚ especially in the 16th-17th Century era. From the beginning of its society‚ the Ottoman Empire was always tolerant. They may not have been doing it in the most “civil” way‚ but they were at least giving people a chance to
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These two empires were the Ottoman Empire and the Spanish Empire. During the building process of their empires‚ the Ottoman and the Spanish both developed many similarities in their political‚ social‚ and economic affairs. A similarity between these empires was that they both had some type of slave system. Even though they did have some things in common there were also many differences that were between these empires. Some differences between these two were that the Ottomans had the devshirme slave
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The Ottoman Empire‚ or Turks‚ were the longest-lasting remnents of the Mongol Empire; the Spanish Empire re-asserted itself after the Muslim Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula and became a world power through the Age of Exploration. From 1450 to 1800‚ both the Ottoman and Spanish Empires experienced political expanision in the process of empire building‚ but unlike the Spanish‚ the Ottomans experienced diminshing growth and stagnation during the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries after amassing
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and economic aspects of societies around the world. The impacts extended to all corners of the world including China‚ the Ottoman Empire‚ and Japan and the effects were very prevalent. The impact of imperialism on China included the creation of unequal treaties‚ the population’s introduction to opium‚ China’s power shift‚ and the beginnings of manufacturing. In the Ottoman Empire‚ imperialism also caused unequal treaties‚ pushed the people of the empire to reform‚ shifted the power‚ and caused the
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The Ottoman Empire reached its top supremacy during the 16th century wherein its scope of power stretched to parts of Central and Southeastern Europe and to the desserts of the Middle East. The empire is known to have established a very strong‚ organized and effective form of government over its people with the Sultan holding the highest in power and was considered as the supreme ruler. The Sultan also ruled the lands and provinces of the empire and over its government officials and executed decisions
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purpose for the Tanzimat era was to reorganize the Ottoman Empire. The Tanzimat Era presented two fresh reform groups that were incorporated with the Ottoman Empire to rearrange the formation of its administration and culture. These tasks were shifted onto the administrative officials of the Ottoman Empire and they also intended for the people to follow Ottomanism so that there could be a sluggish drop amongst the ethnic faction that were in the Ottoman Empire. In the 19th century other reforms were
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1. What was the goal of Ottoman (and Egyptian) reforms of 18/19th century‚ who drove them and with what result? In Ottoman Empire the goal was to at first modernize military in order to sustain the Empire and it’s old order. Most radical reforms during the late 18th and early 19th century were introduced by Sultan Selim III‚ he intensified the military reforms which were introduced by his predecessors in the 18th century. The model for these reforms were European armies‚ Selim III wanted to reorganize
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1. Why did the decline of the Ottoman Empire increase tensions among the European powers? The decline of the Ottoman Empire opened new opportunities for the European powers‚ in which the powers took interest into arising opportunities the fall may offer. For instance‚ Russia would be able to expand its influence due to its close proximity with the Ottoman Empire and religious relations with the Greek Orthodox Christians. However‚ this persisting opportunity for Russia led to tensions and fear in
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1750‚ three great Muslim empires arose—the Ottomans‚ the Safavids‚ and the Mughals. The Ottomans arose after the Seljuk Turkic kingdom of Rum in Eastern Anatolia collapsed‚ which occurred because of a Mongol invasion in 1243. The area fell into a chaotic period after that because the Mongols did not directly rule it. In search of riches‚ Turkic peoples‚ including the Ottomans who dominated the rest‚ flooded into the area. By the 1350s‚ the Ottomans were advancing from their Asia Minor strongholds
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