Middle East 1350-1650Ottoman Empire

1. Origins

2. Sultan Mehmet II

3. Capture of Constantinople

4. Ottoman Empire as a World Empire

5. Imperial Organization

6. Competing Images

7. Ottoman Empire and the Modern World

1250-1350Mongols

TurksIndian Merchants

EUROPE MIDDLE EAST ASIAFlanders North Steppes

ChinaChamp. F. Middle Route SE AsiaItalian Cities Southern Route India

Crusades Arab Merchants

Italian Merchants Italian Merchants

10th Century engraving of Istanbul

Sultan Mehmet II(Reign: 1451-1481)

Constantinople

Hagia Sophia

Hagia Sophia, interior

Istanbul (by a Venetian artist)

Venice – by an Ottoman artist

Sultan Suleyman II(Suleiman the Magnificent)

Reign:15201566

The Battle of Lepanto (1571)

Siege of Vienna (1683)

Imperial organization

• Military and civilian bureaucracy (devşirme system )

• Agriculture and internal trade (guilds)

• Legal structure (Islam)

• Multi-ethnic and multi-religious society

Registration of children collected by devshirme

Seated Janissary, Bellini

• Military and civilian bureaucracy (devşirme system )

• Agriculture and internal trade (guilds)

• Legal structure (Islam)

• Multi-ethnic and multi-religious society

Sultan Mehmet II

Ottoman map of the world