Transcript OTTOMAN EMPIRE - Dolgeville Central School

OTTOMAN EMPIRE
EQ: How did the Ottoman Empire
impact the world?
Fall of Constantinople
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By 1400s, Byzantine empire is falling
Ottomans = a nomadic group, speak
Turkish, migrate from central Asia to
Asia minor & the Balkans
1453 = Ottoman armies surround
Constantinople
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After battling for 2 months, Ottomans win
and rename the city ISTANBUL
Geographic Expansion
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Post 1453: empire reaches to Mecca,
Nile River, into the Balkans & Russia,
get to Vienna in 1529
http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/otto
man/map.htm
Success credited to new military
technology like cannons and muskets
Golden Age of Suleiman
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Ottomans blended Byzantine & Middle
Eastern cultures
Suleiman the Magnificent
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Rules from 1520-1566, is the Sultan and
has ABSOLUTE power
Strengthens gov’t & justice system
Laws based on the Sharia
Consulted w/ an advisor and council
Troops reach Vienna (farthest West)
Tolerable of other religions
Society & Decline
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Diverse society;
Islam is dominant
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mosques
Janissaries =
soldiers in the elite
Ottoman Army
Millets =
communities for
non-Muslims; could
practice own religion
as long as they
followed Ottoman
law
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Empire survives into
20th C. (WWI)
Corrupt gov’t & poor
leadership
Nations break free
European nations’
powers increase
Europe has a
commercial
revolution while the
Ottomans do not
Exit Ticket
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On ½ sheet of paper, identify TWO ways
in which the Ottoman Empire impacted
the world.