HIST131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hayreddin Barbarossa, Ismail I, Ottoman Empire
31 Aug 2016
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Won a battle in greece against unified christian coalition. If you wanted role in army, you had to convert. Cities typically converted to islam but peasants didn"t. Converting to islam meant paying lower taxes, so if everyone converted it came at expense of tax base which is one reason why they weren"t too stringent. Institutionalized the millet system nation: city divided into quarters according to millets, successful organization structure until 19th century nationalism came about, traditional set up: Strong sultan means weak vizier and vice versa. In 17th century there is a series of weak sultans. 1683 is beginning of end of ottoman empire: lost at. Vienna (led by polish king) and begin long retreat does not mean they dissolve, remain formidable power but the urgent threat was gone bc ottomans prove to not be invincible. Russians begin to bring up slavic nationalism in 19th century against the ottomans. Ottomans in west, iran in middle, india in east.
