Compare And Contrast The Western Reforms Of The Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman empire was a vast and powerful empire, but in the 18th century suffered military problems and challenges to its rule. These problems in fact were solved by reformations and the creation of the “Tanzimat”, which were a series of series of reforms that brought over culture, education, society, and religions more in line with Europe. The western reforms allowed the Ottoman empire to improve in their military army, their education, and economic, which they were struggling in before the reforms happened. Firstly, the western reforms allowed the Ottoman empire to create a more effective army. They made the soldiers all around European, from their clothes, to their weapons and tactics. Before the reforms, the Ottomans severely lacked behind the Europeans in strategy, tactics, weapons, and training, and suffered humiliating losses to their Austrian and Russian foes, with it a vast amount of their territory. With the western reforms, the …show more content…
The military class were given a more proper education, and reorganized primary and secondary education. Before the reorganization of primary and secondary education was not seen as nearly important and did not receive much attention. Recruits were now able to study at military and engineering school, and secondary education was also provided for boys transferring to mosque schools, which provided primary education for scientific, mathematic, and military education. The secondary education helped meet the needs of the existing bureaucracy and create knowledgeable civil servants. An argument would be that the increase in education of scientific, and mathematics would cause social instability among the religious conservatives. Even though it would cause social instability, it would help also increase social stability in return with the increase in more well-educated civil servants, and a more well-educated society in