Unlike to its power and expansion in the 1500s, the Ottoman empire started to lose some of its territories in 1851. The Ottoman empire “was exposed at many points to the sea power of the Europeans” (Ibid, 283), it was partly this that made the Ottomans realise they needed to adapt a more of a Western style “technique on to the social and political structure of their Islamic empire” (Ibid, 284), such as Tanzimat reforms as well as strengthening the army. Yet, this new Western system wasn’t welcomed by many in the Ottoman empire and proved unsuccessful (Ibid, 285) because the Ottomans were still losing territories and their society were becoming more disunited. Thus, this had an effect on the image of the Ottoman empire as the “dilution of the
