Ottoman Expansion Research Paper

Ottoman expansion was crucial to it's survival were friction showered. Battles outbursting of violence between monarchs over territory. Christians and Jews fought for them, a lot of taking was going on in other places. They traveled to the Muslim World selling guns. It was two battles that beginning of the end of the Ottoman hegemony, the Battle of Vienna and the Battle of Lepanto. Upon entering Europeans entering the Ottomans economy they upset the delicate stability of the Ottoman system of checks and balances because there was a guilds who were controlling all the manufacturing and protected their members by locking up competitions. Each gold had a monopoly over a product so they couldn't rise up the prices because the state imposed on limits to the prices. The …show more content…
They had the golds of the Americans but the guilds had profits limited because of government price controls. Raw materials being shipped out from the Ottoman system to Europe and their guilds couldn't manufacture enough, the production began to fall. The Ottomans banned the export of raw materials needed by domestic industries but these laws only opened up illegal opportunities and having a black economy begin to thrive helping the black-market entrepreneurs. Bribing officials opening opportunities for corruption, breaking the law to make money where lot's of people had illegal cash to spend. It hurt the people with fixed incomes, government bureaucrats and officials of the court. Ottoman became a nightmare where the only way to negotiate was a person needed to bride people. Grand Seraglio was the consultants that was hired to help set things in order. He grew out the court growing it bigger, heavier and less productive until it was like some giant deformity that society was carrying. He was the archetypal symbol of this deformity, the sultan's harem in