1. Chapter 19 The Muslim Empires
Lesson 1
The Rise and Expansion of the Ottoman Empire
Alexis Causey – Class of 2018

2. Social Family and kinship- hereditary and aristocracy
Gender roles and relations- Woman had no rights. Women seldom appeared in public In Istanbul and Isfahan. Men monopolized public life and feared women getting involved in politics. Women’s quarters were separate from the public room. Islamic law gave some women a claim in the general economy and an amount of independence from their husbands
Social Classes-
Men of the pen-highly educated; scientists, lawyers, judges and doctors.
Men of the swords-military personnel.
Men of negotiations -merchants, artisans and tax collectors
Men of husband- farmers and herders.
Artisans and merchants organized themselves into guilds that had strong social and religious as well as economic
Sharia conditioned urban institutions and social life
Family and kinship- hereditary and aristocracy
Racial and Ethnic Constructions- Boys from conquered areas were taken into the ottoman empire

3. Political Political structures and forms of governance
Devshirme: System for selecting male children from Christian villages in the Balkans to become slave soldiers (Janissary).
• Askeri, or military class, protected the Raya, or the mass of the population, who in turn paid taxes and supported them.
• Tax-farming took place in the decline of the Ottoman Empire, replacing land grants in return for military services.
Revolts and Revolutions
The Tulip Period led to a Janissary revolt called the Patrona Halil rebellion (1730) which weakened the government and allowed ambitious high class men to take advantage. It also allowed for Janissary commanders to become independent rulers in Baghdad, Mamluks to have power in Egypt, and inspired a conservative Sunni movement to take place in Central Asia.
Empires
Nations and nationalism
Regional, trans-regional, and global structures and organizations

4. Interaction Between Humans and the Environment
gunpowder empire
located in today Turkey
Mehmed the Conqueror (reigned ) captured Constantinople in 1453; it became Istanbul, the Ottoman capital & expanded to Serbia, Greece, Albania & attacked Italy
Astronomical studies in the Islamic civilization started in the very early days

5. Cultural
Ottoman Empire drew from the east and west for it’s architecture
Greatest Architecture was Sinan he created the Selim Masque
Islamic
Religious tolerance
Poetry was a form of art. Many ottomans wanted to be poets.

6. Economic
Built a land-tenure system for collecting revenue, the proceeds from which they supplemented with taxes on trade.
Genoa and Venice were among their first foreign trading partners.
Ottomans traded precious metals, wheat, and cotton.