POLS 3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ottoman Empire, Black Death
23 Feb 2018
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The rise and fall of the ottoman empire: when the ottoman empire collapsed a lot more people started to do things independently, and states had less control over their land. This wave collapsed creating the modern states that we see today. This had a lingering effect until roughly at the end of wwi (1914). At the end of wwi it completely collapsed. It reached it"s peak in 1863, the ottoman empire joined germany, then when germany lost, the empire was carved apart. Foundations of the ottoman empire: absolute monarch (sultan) at the head of a central administration. A lot of people consider it a military patronage empire, it was based in islamic law, dynastic law and local traditions. There were two very broad classes; the military class, and the non-military class (average person in society): ottoman empire is also known as the gun power empire, because they enabled them to grow quite quickly.
