Pros And Cons Of The Haxburg Empire

The Ottoman Empire had many great accomplishments, but one accomplishment was when the empire defeated Constantinople in 1453. This was only a stepping stone to the reign and control of a large empire. According to Kevin Shillington, “By the end of the sixteenth century the Ottoman Empire stretched across much

Constantinople held religious significance, access to goods and shipping routes, and strategic benefits; for those reasons, the Ottomans conquered the city and used them as their own.

Religious diversity was allowed in different degrees among the Islamic Empires. Sunni Muslims ruled the Ottoman Empire, but there was a common acceptance of other religions. Mughal rule seemed the most accepting of other religions, as it enforced the Policy of Religious toleration under Akbar the Great. Seemingly least accepting of religious diversity was the Safavid Empire with its loss of religious freedom towards its decline. Religious diversity was accepted in degrees among the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires with certain restrictions like Jitza and Devshirme in, but also approbations like the Policy of Religious Toleration in the Mughal Empire also known as the most religiously accepting empire.

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 Ottomans were Sunni Muslim and accepted the existence of other religions such as Jews and Christians. However there were laws regarding the interactions between each group. Christians and Jews could pray in their own Churches or Synagogues while Muslims continued to pray in their Mosques. The Ottomans tried to take a practical approach to running an empire while still keeping tradition intact. A large contribution to the social incline and support of the Ottomans was the tax that was placed on non-Muslim people.

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.

Throughout the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, religion changed through each empire and time. In these times, there were people with the religion of Hindu, Judaism, Christianity, and Muslim (which contained two sects: the Sunnis and Shiites.) Three empires during this time included the Ottoman Empire, the Safavid Empire, and lastly, the Mughal Empire. These three empires between the 16th and 18th centuries were different and similar in many ways, however all three had different outlooks on religion and were very diverse. They were diverse because each ruler had his own opinion about religion and made the whole empire follow whatever he thought, meaning that each empire had a different amount of religious tolerance, if any at all. The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires varied in their views about religion.

The reason for that is because of their location, as they had control of trade routes between Asia and Europe. The Spanish, however, found difficulty in commerce and trade along land because the Ottoman Empire would block trade routes from Spain and force Spain to expand by sea and find different routes and ways of commerce and trade. The Spanish had to keep sending explorers to find different lands and happened upon the Americas. They used the newfound land to plant cash crops such as tobacco, coffee, and cotton. They also found precious metals such as gold and silver. Soon, they dominated overseas and trading. The Spanish Empire was primarily sea-based. They possessed advanced ships and navigational tools that allowed them to discover new continents and claim them as their own. They began to colonize for the economy to run and relied heavily on imports from those colonies. Contrary to the Spanish, the Ottoman Empire was a land based empire that dominated the Middle East up to Eastern Europe. The economy of the Ottoman Empire was dependent on subjugating new lands and exploiting them for their value. Despite these many differences, both empires took part during this period in the developing and increasing African slave trade.

Both the Spanish maritime empire and the Ottoman empire achieved success through conquests and expansion. Spain created empires in the Americas through conquest and subsequent

In the middle of the Sixteenth century, Spain had set up a vast empire that extended from Europe to the Americas and Asia. As exploration continued the Spanish found new ways to export goods and help with the movement of people by using the sea as a highway. Spain's empire surpassed the size of the Roman Empire. Spain extended thier empire by conquering the major city of Tenochtitlan, Mexico by building monasteries, government buildings, and the first university in the New World. The empire of New Spain was controlled

There was not only an expansion in the size of empires, but also religion, and movement of people. The Ottoman Empire expanded its rule over time through the religious belief of Islam

1. Order of importance: silver-rich Mexico and Peru -> Islands of Caribbean->northern borders of New Spain(California, Texas area)

(Zgoda, 2) On the other hand, the Ottomans social basis was broad in terms of religion, or in other words, they tolerated any religion in order to find unity within their population,

Centralized monarchs used religious issues to make their states stronger and to increase there our authority. They were the ones that had the most benefits do to the Reformation. The Holy Roman Empire started in the nineteenth century but its power did not go far, only to northern Italy and Germany. Charles V became the emperor in 1519 he worked to establishing the Holy Roman Empire the have ultimate authority in Europe. This was a difficult process because the empire tended to scare others such as France. The French were Catholics but they got support by allying with German Lutherans and Muslim Ottoman Turks against the emperor. Which their help they made it so that it was not possible for Charles to extend his

Osman I, Orhan, Murad I, and Beyazid I started the beginning of the Ottoman expansion at the end of the Byzantine empire, Bulgaria, and Serbia. Next the Ottoman empire took over Bursa and Adrianople; it spread the empire and their capital was relocated to both places. Europe soon realized the threat of the Ottoman empire once they had defeated most of the Balkan Peninsula. Bayezid was captured in 1402 after the Ottoman siege Constantinople. The Ottomans, in response, did bounce back from this.