What did the ottomans do?

Answer 1

Conquering the land that is now known as Turkey. They also conquered Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Mesopotamia, parts of Arabia, and North Africa. They also attacked the Byzantine Empire, seized Constantinople which is now Istanbul and is also their capital.

Answer 2

The Ottoman Empire was one of the great Muslim Empires, its center was in what is now called Turkey. The largest empire of its time, it spanned from 1299 to after world war two. They ruled vast swathes of the world and none could stand against their might. Trough their constant academic pursuit of knowledge they brought technological, medicinal and social wonders never before seen to the world and were highly civilized at a time of widespread barbarism.

The Ottomans are one of the greatest and most powerful civilizations of the modern period. Their moment of glory in the sixteenth century represents one of the heights of human creativity, optimism, and artistry. The empire they built was the largest and most influential of the Muslim empires of the modern period, and their culture and military expansion crossed over into Europe. Not since the expansion of Islam into Spain in the eighth century had Islam seemed poised to establish a European presence as it did in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Like that earlier expansion, the Ottomans established an empire over European territory and established Islamic traditions and culture that last to the current day (the Muslims in Bosnia are the last descendants of the Ottoman presence in Europe).

The Ottoman empire lasted until the twentieth century. While historians like to talk about empires in terms of growth and decline, the Ottomans were a force to be reckoned with, militarily and culturally, right up until the break-up of the empire in the first decades of this century. The real end to the Ottoman culture came with the secularization of Turkey after World War II along European models of government. The transition to a secular state was not an easy one and its repercussions are still being felt in Turkish society today; nevertheless, secularization represents the real break with the Ottoman tradition and heritage.

Answer 3

The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest empires the world had ever seen ,in it's prime it conquered all of North Africa , Middle East and all the way to the gates of Vienna In Europe it had the Balkans , Greece , Cyprus , Romania and Bulgaria .

It was founded in 1299 by sultan Osman bey it conquered all of Anatolia from the Byzantium empire and in 1453 it conquered Constantinople from the Byzantine empire finally destroying the empire for good and it was all done by a 18 year old sultan Mehmet .

The Ottomans brought to the world religious tolerance , the first military band , drinking coffee , the worlds first shopping centre , art , cuisine from east to west , yogurt , baklava the first ever military special force group the jannisary they were the most feared soldiers in the known world .

There greatest ever sultan was Sulieman the magnificent he made the Ottoman Empire the greatest empire in the world he transformed istanbul into the most beautiful city in all of the known world , the ottomans were a mighty and powerful empire that change the face of the world and history forever, now it's the proud country of Turkey , the empire lasted from 1299-1923

Answer 4

The Ottoman Empire lasted from 1299 to 1923, with the height being around the mid 1400s to mid 1500s. They were known for absorbing surrounding cultures, and making them part of their own.

Some other Ottoman traits:

• Intercultural marriage
• Heavy into the slave trade
• Battled with the plague
• Literature, poetry, and prose. Poetry was the most popular.
• Allies with France
• Highly ornamental architecture
• Shadow puppet theater
• Translated a large collection of books from around the world
• Developments in astronomy
• Participated in many battles and wars, including the Hundred Years' Croatian-Ottoman War, The Long War, and The Great Turkish War.

Answer 5

The thing that made the Ottoman empire so successful is the people they recruited, they recruited muslims, jews, christians, anyone that could be useful.

They didn't have that prejudice that many Christian countries like England or France had, so they got the best people available to do the deed.

Even though they had the non-muslims pay minor extra taxes, every few years or months they would go to a town and find some promising christian/jew and allow them to take part in politics, even though they would convert to Islam, they were apart of the other cultures, which helped the stabibility of the Empire.

Bureaucracy

Answer 6

The ottomans conquered most of the land that today makes up the country of Turkey. They attacked the Byzantine empire and pushed north into Europe. in 1453 they seized Constantinople

Answer 7

Made istanbul as its capital.