NES 2674 Lecture 1: Imperial Legacies: The Ottomans. Cleveland Chpt.3. 8/24

• School: Cornell University
• Department: Near Eastern Studies
• Course: NES 2674
• Professor: Ziad Fahmy

Document Summary

Bring the modern middle east in documents and other primary sources to discussion section. Kept byzantine tax & tax bureaucratic infrastructure. If you were paying taxes there was administrative flexibility. Maintain greek orthodox church to govern local population. Rise in jewish population- expelled jew from spain were welcomed within ottoman. Mostly from central asia, until mass migration that settled in the modern day middle east and turkey 10th 14th century ad. Expansion into nw anatolia & to sea of marmara (1350s) bursa (became capital) Won out against other tribes politically and militarily. Allied with byzantines against competing e. european principalities. By 1340s steady expansion into e. europe. 1389 battle of kosovo (defeated coalition of serbs, hungarians & bulgarians) Expanded in middle east; syria (1516) egypt 1517, and arabia (1517) Empire expanded to hungary, n. africa, most of m. east. Allowed ethnic/ religious minorities to govern themselves. Each millet set its own law and collection of taxes.