Middle East 1350-1650 Ottoman Empire

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Middle East 1350-1650Ottoman Empire

• Origins
• Sultan Mehmet II
• Capture of Constantinople
• Ottoman Empire as a World Empire
• Imperial Organization
• Competing Images
• Ottoman Empire and the Modern World

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1250-1350

• Mongols
• Turks
• Indian Merchants
• EUROPE MIDDLE EAST ASIA
• Flanders North Steppes China
• Champ. F. Middle Route SE Asia
• Italian Cities Southern Route India
• Crusades Arab Merchants
• Italian Merchants Italian Merchants

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10th Century engraving of Istanbul
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Sultan Mehmet II(Reign 1451-1481)
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Constantinople
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Hagia Sophia
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Hagia Sophia, interior
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Istanbul (by a Venetian artist)
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Venice by an Ottoman artist
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Sultan Suleyman II (Suleiman the
Magnificent) Reign15201566
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The Battle of Lepanto (1571)
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Siege of Vienna (1683)
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Imperial organization

• Military and civilian bureaucracy (devsirme
  system )
• Agriculture and internal trade (guilds)
• Legal structure (Islam)
• Multi-ethnic and multi-religious society

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Registration of children collected by devshirme
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Seated Janissary, Bellini
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• Military and civilian bureaucracy (devsirme
  system )
• Agriculture and internal trade (guilds)
• Legal structure (Islam)
• Multi-ethnic and multi-religious society

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Sultan Mehmet II
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Ottoman map of the world
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