Different Cultures: The Ottoman Empire

It was a surprise when even the most powerful civilizations, such as the Persian Empire and the Byzantine Empire, were no match for the Muslim civilization. Effortlessly, the Muslim armies marched from land to land and claimed victory after victory. The Muslim civilization was unified under Islam, more stable than ever, and skilled in defense so they could easily take advantage of the weak and divided Europe. As the Muslim civilization acquired more land, they built an impressive empire, stretching from Spain to India. Under Muslim rule, Arabs, Persians, Egyptians, Africans, Europeans, Mongols, Turks, Indians, and Southeast Asians came together and many of their traditions and cultural practices blended together. As a combination of all

The Ottoman empire relied on a system of military slavery. Within the Ottoman military, the Muslims were officers, and those who did not share the state religion made up the backbone of the military.

1. Broad Analytical Statement: Almost all successful classical civilizations needed a strong political base in order to thrive.

While taking the class of Early Modern European History there was two states that really stuck out and peaked my interest the most. They were the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe. If you compare and contrast both the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe during the 16th Century through the 18th Century, you will see that there are a number of similarities as well as differences when you look at the expansion of the states. You will also see many of these contrasts as well when you look in terms of each states military and commerce. Although the Ottoman Empire existed before the 16th century and continued to exist past the 18th century and in great decline until the early 20th century, when looking at the state as a whole the time

Those associated with Osman, more than any other Turkish state had as their guiding principle the concept of being a gazi, gearing the emirate for conquest. As mentioned earlier, a gazi was a Muslim warrior who inhabited the military borderland between Byzantium and Islam; he was a warrior of the faith. A gazi held the sacred duty to extend and expand Islamic territory at the expense of the non-Muslim's who inhabited the land. The gazi performed his duty to the Umma by means of the gaza, or raid. These raids evolved into perpetual warfare carried out against the nonbelievers, especially the Christians, in the interests of Islam. Because of the Ottomans beneficial location, and their guiding principle, the early Ottoman state did not disintegrate under pressure from internal feuds that plagued other rival emirates because it constantly expanded, gained new territory and relentlessly provided new outlets for the energies of the gazi warriors.

Religion was very important in the Ottoman Empire, and it had a great influence on various activities done in the empire. Economy and Education were two of the many things that religion had influence on and impacted. Religion also changed the social classes and their order. Architecture was completely changed due to the Muslim architects and the way they put it together.

In a time notorious for religious wars and acts of injustice, some empires chose to keep an open mind and benefited greatly. The Ottoman empire used other empires’ religious intolerance to their advantage. They had all religions, even their own, make a contribution to the empire. Muslims and people of conquered lands were forced to served in the military. On the other hand, Jews and Christians had to heavy taxes. By allowing Jews and Christians a safe place to practice their religion it made the empire desirable. With other empires forcing conversions, expelling, or even murdering paying tax was no problem. In exchange for paying these tax the

People, places, and/or things come and go, changing from one thing to another or none at all. In other cases, it is just not people, places, and/or things, it can also be generations or empires. Empires are known to adopt similar traditions or beliefs from other empires. In addition, some empires have similar, but slightly different laws and/or goals. Two of the empires that were similar, but different is many ways are the Ottoman and Mughal Empires.

On a religious point of view for all the empires. The Governments in all 3 were muslim based. Mughals were the only group that was not predominately Muslim. Muslims were only a small minority Ottomans were Sunni Muslims. The Ottoman titles were claimed to be caliphs. They maintained Islamic law called Sandri'a. Only applied to Ottoman Muslims. Ottoman minorities were mostly

The early modern Ottoman and European worlds embraced religious diversity. Like the powerful Dutch Golden Age, the Ottoman Empire was also receptive of other religions because it facilitated trade relations. In the case of Ottoman Empire, for example, other religions were tolerated despite being founded on Islam. In Spain, for example, Christianity and Jewish religions were widely practiced and accepted as Isaac de Orobio confessed to practicing both. In Amsterdam, religious tolerance was also witnessed as the immigrant Portuguese Jews lived in harmony with the Christians (“Worlds Entangled Dutch

The Ottoman Empire was a military power, and demonstrated that they were a force to be reckoned with. Their successful conquering of Rome, Byzantium solidified their standing as a world power in 1453. The Ottoman Empire held to strict religious beliefs and practiced a form of Islam called Sunnism. Additionally, the Ottoman Empire made use of a system where the leaders in power also controlled the leaders of the church. The system was called casesaro-papism.

Today, it is known as Iran. It was founded by a Sufi order that is known as the Safavid. Through warfare and diplomacy, Akbar was able to extend the empire in all directions and controlled almost the entire Indian subcontinent north of the Godavari river. He created a new class of nobility loyal to him from the military aristocracy of India's social groups, implemented a modern government, and supported cultural developments. The state religion was Shi'a Islam.

Later on the nomads were were pushed to the byzantine empire by the Seljuks because of their way of life. It was in this move the the ottoman as a tribe rose as a tribe out of the nomads and their conquering began. According to source, the Ottoman empire became feared all across the european world not just because of their great military prowess, but because of the fear that if conquered, christianity as a religion will be no more. So because of that, there were many crusades created to attack the ottoman empire but non really ever succeeded. Although europe resisted for awhile it became known to them that they could not win the battle. According to source, “Contact with various settled peoples led to the introduction of islam and under Islamic influence, the Turks acquired their greatest fighting tradition, that of the gazi warrior. Well trained and highly skilled, gazi warriors fought to conquer the infidel, acquiring land and riches in the process”. Showing that the ottomans were really a conquer first empire until the introduction of islam which also brought in many other cultures that

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The rise of the Ottoman Empire started in Turkey and spread through most of the Middle East. Their military practice and successful transition to the use of gun powder made them one of the most successful ruling bodies in the Middle East. The Ottoman Empire which ruled until modern times had great influence on the Middle Eastern world. Their political and economic abilities astonished the western world. Their religious views and fears were instilled into any non-Muslim and helped the western world to find new trade. The rise of Christianity in the western world provided new ways to preserve the dead and ended the need for frankensence, the main export of the Ottoman Empire. This