POLS 3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gunpowder Empire, Absolute Monarchy, Timariot

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3060
• Professor: Janine Clark

Document Summary

Lecture 2: the rise and fall of the ottoman empire. Starts in what is now known as turkey and expanded and extended to many other areas that we now label as the middle east. It was a massive empire, relatively peaceful and was good at managing ethnic conflicts. Peaks at 1683 and then it started to shrink and lose its power because other european powers took its land, internal rebellion, it gets poorer and poorer. Based on some key pillars that helped keep together this diverse empire: absolute monarch (sultan) at the head of a central administration (constantinople aka. The sultan started as a warrior chief, but as more land was gained the job became a more central and absolute monarch that held all the power. Very few markings of the empire left over. Collected taxes instead to gain military power and make the empire secure nicknamed the gunpowder empire .