HIS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Crimean War, Statism, Sipahi
18 Apr 2016
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His1110 lecture: versailles, the postwar middle east, and. Birth of turkey and its state on the map and how it came about disregarding british plans. Brief timeline: reforms seized control and was embarking the transformation of the ottoman empire to make it more civilized, italy starts the frenzy. Background: ottoman empire: turks were people from central asia that converted to islam, battle for lepanto (1571, from the battle of vienna, oe stated to decline. Ottoman system: sultan: head of state. Also the khalif: grand vizier: administrator of the state, khalif: religious head of muslims, millet system: autonomy within empire, janissaries: european mercenaries. Christian boys taken as slave and trained to be mercenaries: sipahi cavalry. Terrorized people in the near east in in europe. Decline of the ottoman empire (1700-1908: revolt of the janissaries in 1826 started the decline, sultans spent a lot of time in istanbul, tanzimat era: there was an efort made to copy western science.
