THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

THE EMPIRE BEGINS

• 1326-End ww1
• Started when osman built small state in anatolia

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• Anatolia expands through alliances and conquests
• 1361 Byzantium captured by Anatolian military

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• 1451 constantinople taken by mehmet 2
• Constantinople controlled the bosporous
• constantinople opened to many faiths and peoples

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• 1512 sultan selim the grim defeated safavids,
• Moved in to middle east
• also captured medina and mecca
• suleiman 1 was able to move empire into east europe
• hapsburgs stopped suleiman at vienna

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• weak rulers following suleiman began decline
• foreign militias (italian, spanish) were taking ottoman land
• in the 16 and 17 centuries
• military, territory, economincs started to decline after suleiman

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• territories becoming independent
• breaking off and making own rules and economies

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• economic decline started after lack of expansion
• trade revenue declining with asia (india, china)
• industrialization was claiming more than half of wealth
• trade patterns shifted in europe

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• increased foreign prescenceled to special privileges
• capitulations-agreements exempting europeans from ottoman law
• also got extraterritorality (could exercise own jurisdiction
• according to their own laws

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• mahmud 2 (1808-1839) made ottoman stronger temporarily
• declines up to ww1 led to present day turkey and end of empire

CULTURAL ACHIEVEMENTS

• simplified taxation
• reduced bureaucracy
• supported arts, science, public works