HIST 1F90 Lecture 9: The Balkan Wars week 9.docx
11 May 2015
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16th-17th century hit the all-time high of their empire. The tried to take over vienna, but didn"t succeed. Black sea: their empire covered syria, iraq, the. Balkans, palestine, ksa, mecca, medina (2 holiest places in islam, very important) Incredibly large and powerful state: anatolia (now turkey) was the capital, anatolia was taken by the byzantine. Empire and took constantinople (istanbul) as the capital. In the 15th century the turks took over. In 1453 muslim ottomans seized control of the byzantine empire and called it istanbul: the sultan took over and ran the empire based on political and islamic laws. The sultan would ask religious scholars in the government to make sure he"s following the islamic law. This empire was designed for war and expansion. Received by blood tax , non-muslims had to produce children and give them to the empire. They were cut off from their original villages. They got very high ranks in the military such as being officers.
