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The Ottoman Empire controlled one leg of the Silk Road and it would have been practically impossible for the Silk Road to have passed outside of Ottoman Territory if a land route were used. (The northern path through Kipchak and Russian territory was so dangerous that nobody would attempt it.) As a result, all silk road trade was controlled and delimited by the Ottomans.
If you mean the Ottomans of Turkey, Yes. They were the Muslims, They favoured Islam. They ruled the Islamic world for a fairly long period of History. The Ottoman Caliphate ended in 1921 as a result of First World War. It is important to note that the Ottoman Empire only favored Sunni Muslims and treated Shiites in the same way that it treated non-Muslims.
Partly. It was also a result of squabbling INSIDE the empire, with 'colonies' wanting their independence. All in all, the empire got to big and they ran out of money and soldiers as a result of bad leadership.
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At the battle of Marathon, Athens defeated a punitive expedition by Persia designed to bring Athens and Eretria under control after they interfered in a revolt by Greek cities in Asia Minor. As a result the Persians determined to bring all the Greek city-states under control to ensure peace within the Persian Empire and, after winning over some of the Greek city-states by diplomacy and bribers, they launched an invasion of mainland Greece to gain control of the remainder.
a period of disorder and weak central government
The Ottoman Empire controlled one leg of the Silk Road and it would have been practically impossible for the Silk Road to have passed outside of Ottoman Territory if a land route were used. (The northern path through Kipchak and Russian territory was so dangerous that nobody would attempt it.) As a result, all silk road trade was controlled and delimited by the Ottomans.
Rome gained control of the western Mediterranean.
The British government tightened its control over India.
The Britiah government took control over Inida (Apex)
If you mean the Ottomans of Turkey, Yes. They were the Muslims, They favoured Islam. They ruled the Islamic world for a fairly long period of History. The Ottoman Caliphate ended in 1921 as a result of First World War. It is important to note that the Ottoman Empire only favored Sunni Muslims and treated Shiites in the same way that it treated non-Muslims.
It became a satellite state of Russia and had a dictatorship in control of the government.
When a government actively opposes a religion, that religion often flourishes. The result can be that the government becomes increasingly repressive until finally the religion is destroyed or driven so far underground that the government no longer has any control over its existence.In China, the government actively opposes Falun Dafa but, by all accounts, it is flourishing. Christianity is persecuted in North Korea, but appears to survive against the odds. The Roman Empire actively opposed Christianity in the late third century, but it continued to flourish and became the religion of the Empire during the course of the fourth century.
A result of the crusades was all of the Byzantine Empire
Carthage was the empire destroyed as a result of Rome's invasion
Diocletian's successors continued his policy of State control of the empire's economy. His division of the empire into two parts helped set up the long existence of the Byzantine empire in the East. In the long run however, Diocletian's reforms, slowed down, but could not prevent the western half of the empire to survive.
Venice was, in the sixteenth century, a significant and powerful state with a large empire, although not as large as it had been. The Venetians had been an important component of the Battle of Lepanto in 1570 which had halted the expansion of the Ottomans in the Mediterranean. However, Venetian political and economic power was on the wane as a result of the development of trade routes through the Atlantic by the Spanish. Portuguese and even the English which made Venetian control of the Mediterranean less important.