1. The Ottoman Empire Under Suleiman

2. Regents Themes
Places and Regions – What lands came under the control of the Ottoman Empire?
Belief Systems – How did the Ottoman Empire extend Muslim influence and permit freedom of worship for people of other religions?
Culture – What contributions did the Ottomans make to the arts and literature?
Change – Why did Europeans seek new trade to East Asia?

3. What Lands came under Ottoman Rule?

4. Reasons for Ottoman Success

5. Gun Powder

6. Fall of Constantinople 1453

8. Ottoman Bureaucracy:
A government divided up into parts. Each part or branch of the government has a special function.
The Sultan wielded “absolute power” but often governed through the vizier.

9. Search for New Trade Routes
In the 1400s, Europeans wanted to get around Italian and then Ottoman Muslim “middlemen” and gain direct access to Asian Trade.
Control of trade made the Ottomans a powerful force to be reckoned with.

10. A Turkish Port

11. How did the Ottoman empire extend Muslim influence and permit freedom of worship for people of other religions?
Ottoman leaders furthered Muslim influence by recruiting military and govt. officers from conquered groups.
Some Christian families in the Balkans were required to turn their young sons over to the government. The boys were converted to Islam and trained for service. The best soldiers became janissaries, members of an elite force in the Ottoman army.

12. Tolerance
Non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire were organized into religious communities called millets. Each millet was allowed to maintain its own religious traditions as long as it obeyed Ottoman law.
Thomas Fuller says in The Historie of The Holy Warre published in 1639,
‘…to give the Mohammadans their due, they are generally good fellows in this point [the virtue of tolerance] and Christians among them may keep their consciousness if their tongues be fettered, not to oppose the doctrine of Mohammad.’

13. Balkan Peninsula

14. The Ottoman Empire Under Suleiman5
GOVERNMENT
SOCIETY
ARTS
Suleiman had absolute power.
Ottoman law was based on Sharia.
Poets produced works in the Turkish language.
Painters produced detailed miniatures and illuminated manuscripts.
Society was divided into four classes, with “men of the pen” and “men of the sword” at the top.

15. Ottoman Art
The Hagia Sophia

16. More Ottoman Art

17. Suleiman the Lawgiver
Ottoman law was based on the Sharia or Islamic law based on the Quran. Ottoman law was organized on the order of Suleiman the Magnificent (1520 – 1566).
Today, however, Turkey is
considered a secular state. Secular means non-religious.

18. Decline
Eventually the Ottoman is going to experience a period of long decline giving
rise to the title “the sick
man of Europe.”

19. The Big Picture

20. WW I

21. Legacy

22. The Real Ottoman Empire
Resistance is Futile!