Ottoman Empire

The three major early modern Islamic Empires, The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughal, ruled vast territories and people with diverse ethnic backgrounds, and myriad of different sectarian faiths. As one would expect, the Muslim subject of theses empires were treated as privileged citizen compared to their non-Muslim counterparts. Muslims comprised the majority of imperial courts for the Safavids, Ottomans, and Mughal Empire, and held high bureaucratic offices, such as mayors, governors, and viziers.…

Throughout the history, Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful empires of the world. Founded by Osman 1 in 1299, this empire ruled large territory of Europe and Asia starting from Baghdad to Algiers at its prime. Since the empire controlled both Europe and Asia, it has ruled various ethinicities and cultures. Thus, various people who had different religions and lifestyles lived together. Between many of the cities of the Ottoman there was one city which had various religions. The city was…

When the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire became more educated in the Ottoman society starting in the 1800’s, the most educated citizens of Armenia began to ask the empire for equal and better rights. These requests from the Armenians along with a quest for territory and power drove the Ottomans to begin killing any Armenian that was within their region. The genocide gave insight into how Hitler’s mind got so twisted to kill off people of his own country, along with how Armenia became…

1914, the world was divided by power and who held it. In the Middle East that was the Ottoman Empire. An empire that expanded that ruled from Turkey and held control along the Arabian Peninsula. This region was as complicated as the western front with a multitude of players on a single field, with Germany, France, Britain, and the Arab tribes all vying for power and influence. Germany combined with the Ottoman Empire and the allies of Britain and France backing their support for the Arab tribes.…

the Ottoman Empire on April 24th,1915. The Turkish government was responsible for the Armenian Genocide. They wanted to rid the state of all Armenians to have a homogenous environment. The Turkish government planned and carried out the killing of the whole population of Armenians in the…

Suleiman the Magnificent What was Suleiman the Magnificent’s greatest accomplishment and how did it impact the Ottoman Empire? In 1494, a baby boy was born in Trabzon, Turkey, to Sultan Selim I as the only surviving heir, with little knowledge of, when he came to the throne in 1520, his great destiny. His destiny would hold forty-six years of many achievements in “which the Ottomans would reach the apex of their history.” This baby’s name was Sultan Suleiman I, a ruler later recognized by his…

the case of the Armenian Genocide, fear of the other brought about the extermination of the Armenian minority in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. The genocide took place during and after World War I, and led to the death of approximately one million Armenians. The remaining Armenian population was…

the first genocides of the modern era. The events that unfolded in the Ottoman Empire during World War I killed an estimated 1.5 million Armenians. These events were an extension of a persecution that extended from the 1500s and was an accumulation of massacres that started in the 1890s.The deaths also extended to the mass killings of Assyrians and Greeks whom resided in the Ottoman Empire. Despite these atrocities, the Ottoman Empire’s successor state of Turkey’s denial of the usage of the term…

achievement under ruler Shah Abba who was the son of the previous ruler Shah Ismail. Under Shah Abba the Safavid’s went after the Ottomans to get back lost land. the ottomans were a threat to the Safavid’s. When ruler Abba died, traditional religious belief’s increased woman had to give up their freedom and wear veils. Isfahan was the Jewel and the capital of the Safavid Empire. Safavid art is known to have miniature paintings, bookbinding decoration, and hand made crafts such as pottery and…

The Ottoman Empire faced devastating losses at the First Balkan War in 1912. The problem originated, when Ottoman Turks crossed the Black Sea straits and that resulted into uniting the Balkan states into the ‘Balkan Union,’ that agreed to defeat the Ottoman Turkey. Bulgaria and Serbia ruled the Balkan Union, who aspired to conquer Macedonia because Macedonia was already at war with Italy, thus it was weak. Later, Greece and Montenegro advanced against Turkey with military forces. Within weeks,…