HIST1055 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Osman I, Janissaries, Jizya
10 Sep 2015
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Fall of constantinople and the rise of the ottomans. Distilling information - burn o the water only big questions. History is interpretation selecting subject is based on what historian values. Osman i founder of ottoman dynasty - previously loosely grouped together. Ghazi tradition - survive on plunder of conquered territory. Mehmed ii al-faith *the conqueror - made constantinople great (nationalism) duty was to conqueror the world. Byzantine capital (between east and west, root of russian orthodox) Religions thought they should connect others to save them from apocalypse ( Overtures - mehmet invided byzantine subjcts, orthodox patriarch, venetian and genoese merchants back di erent than osman - increase trade. Global integration - mehmed wanted to make istanbul arts heart of the world brought in top painters to paint mehmet to look powerful. Egypt, tunisia, algeria, iraq, palestine, syria, lebanon, hungry, crimea, greece. Centralization - administration and bureaucracy runs through istanbul taxes.
