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Day 32 Ottoman Empire • Warm up/Assignment: A) Music Analysis, B) How would you treat people you conquered? • Objective: Compare and Contrast Ottoman to Western Europe • Standard: Early Ottoman • Orkhan first Sultan of the Ottoman declares jihad against Byzantium • The Balkans is conquered and Muslim rule is imposed • Prior to the 1400’s the Sultans treated those conquered w/ respect Mongol Tamerlane competes for regional Power • Tamerlane conquered Persia, Russia and the city of Baghdad leaving burned bodies in his wake. • Seen as a conqueror not a governor • Temporary defeat of Ottoman Mehmed II • Conquered Constantinople in 1453 • Fall of Byzantine • Renamed it Istanbul and allowed people of Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths to practice their religion. • Controlled Greece and the Balkan’s until 1914 “ After the sultan entered the city and looked about to see its great, its situation, its grandeur and beauty, its teeming population, its loveliness, and the costliness of its churches and public buildings and the private houses and community houses and those of the officials… When he saw what large numbers had been killed and the ruins of the buildings, and the wholesale ruin and destruction of the city, he was filled with compassion repented not a little at the destruction and plundering. Tears fell from his eyes and he groaned deeply and passionately: “What a city we have given over to plunder and destruction” – Kristovulus, history of Mehmed the conqueror Selim the Grim • In 1512 became sultan after overthrowing his father and murdering his brother and nephews • He continued to expand by defeating the Safavid and the Egyptian Mamluke Suliman the lawgiver • The height of the ottoman was ruled by Sulieman (the lawgiver, the magnificent) • Belgrade, Tripoli, Morocco, to the border of Austrian Hungarian Empire Structure • Ottoman family dynasty lasted 600 years • Palace staffed by 20,000 personal slaves • Janissaries (elite soldiers) were created by devenshrime a policy of educating boys • Millets (subject communities) were formed allowing others to practice there own religion Culture • Architectural style • Used Persian and Arabic style in art Summary Questions 1) The Ottoman reached its peak under this ruler also known as the lawgiver or the magnificent? 2) He earned the name the Conqueror by taking Constantinople, he renamed it Istanbul and converted the Hagia Sophia into a Mosque ? 3) He conquered Russia, Persia and Northern India and was nicknamed the lame due to a leg injury sustained in war? 4) He Conquered Mecca and Medina, and expanded the Ottoman into Syria, Palestine and North Africa?