Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks and became the capital of the Ottoman Empire and the centre of trade of this empire.
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Europeans had to find new trade routes to the East because the Ottoman Empire controlled and taxed existing routes.
The Ottoman Empire tried to resist European Trade and Culture but were not terribly effective in doing either, especially at resisting European Culture.
Europeans began to search for a water-based trade route to Asia. APEX;)
It affected trade between Europe and Asia.
It was rich and the trade there was worth considerable amounts of money.
The Ottoman Empire did not change the nature of global trade itself. It was the presence of the Ottoman Empire and the antagonism that most of Western Europe had for the Ottomans that led to the Age of Exploration and a shift of trade from being primarily over the Mediterranean and over Asia to occurring on ocean routes that circumnavigated Africa.
Europe took much of the land of the Ottoman Empire. With a weak military and without European education and industry, the Ottomans were at a great disadvantage. They were forced to fight losing wars in defense of their empire.
The Ottoman Empire was populated by the
Istanbul became the center, capital and crown jewel of the Ottoman Empire after its conquer in 1453.
because it was the middle east. the country encompassed all of what we now know as the middle east.