You should of pointed out that when the Europeans found new trade routes to asia that was basically the beginning of the end for the ottomans Because the silk road was not needed which generated a lot of wealth for the ottomans and basically eventually led to the ottomans becoming irrelevant in all right
when the Portuguese reached the Persian Gulf from the other side and even threatened them in the Red Sea, the Ottoman trade model had basically gone worthless within a single moment. As a side effect also the trade model of Venice and Genoa had become worthless. The Portuguese managed to reroute the whole trade with India, Indochina, China and East Africa towards the Cape of Good Hope and further to Lisbon. By that they also killed the silk road and the whole Islamic world, from North Africa to Central Asia drifted into economic decline and later total economic insignificance. With coffee and sugar cane planted in the Caribbean and Brazil even that trade was lost for the Islamic world. Later cotton from the Americas did the rest.
Hardly. The Ottomans continued to be the European Hegemon all the way up to the 18th Century. The Europeans discovered ways around the Ottomans as early as 1488, while the Ottomans didn't hit their stride until the 1600s.
@@bosbanon3452 i do. ottomans were cool until the young turks came to power. today most turks are fascists who follow kemalism or are neo-imperialists who follow enver pasha’s genocidal ideals
No he doesn’t dude, he sucks. His information is weak and misleading, along with constantly painting half pictures with the ideas he’s attempting to convey.
How do you find these observations? This is some history I'm not as informed on and the main page suggested so I clicked it and will watch some other stuff, maybe read if I can find a particular book, but I appreciate seeing these comments if only to remind myself that many sources are needed, to really understand.
Ottaman : In the 18 the century, the Ottoman Empire began to establish permanent diplomatic missions in London, Paris, Vienna and Berlin. As a result of these contacts all things Turkish became exotic, not least the dress fashion, “turquoisie”. Sultans and pashas were often portrayed as noble and enlightened people in contrast to European rulers. At the Prussian and Saxon courts, feasts, processions and weddings were held á laTurc and Turkish manners became a way for the upper classes to distance themselves from common people. Turkish kiosks were erected in Swedish manorial parks too and Gustav III built a Turkish pavilion at Haga Park. In the 18 th century, Ignatius Mouradgea, a translator (dragoman) of Armenian origin at the Swedish Embassy in Istanbul, contributed to spreading knowledge and a positive image of Turkey in Europe through his encyclopaedic volume entitled Tableau Général de l’Empire Ottoman. He was later knighted by Gustav III acquiring the name d’Ohsson and was for a time head of the Embassy in Istanbul. Turkish Janissary music inspired among others Mozart and Schubert to compose music à la turca. And with the age of enlightenment and Romanticism there was increased interest in the exotic and greater tolerance of and curiosity about other religions and cultures, which was reflected in the image of the Turk who now came to be regarded in many quarters as the “noble savage”. Article : The Turks as a threat and Europe's " other " Author : lngmar karlsson
I sometimes wish the Ottoman Empire didn’t collapse I’m from Iraq and the idea of Turkia Iraq and the Levant being one block in our current day sounds like something powerful
Another factor in the decline was a financial one. See when they captured Constantinople in 1453,it did 2 things: 1. It gave them control over all trade between the Black and Mediterranean Seas. and 2. It gave them control over all the overland trade routes to Asia(ie China, India, and the Spice Islands). Both of those meant that the Ottomans could tax shipping as they controlled the only routes available at the time. So the European powers had one of 3 options: 1. Cut a deal with the Ottomans,like Venice did,so you could continue trade. 2. Find a new route to Asia 3. Say "screw Asia altogether" and find a new market to exploit Most European powers did a combination of 2 and 3. This had a cumulative effect on the Ottomans as once it was realized you didn't need their shipping routes to get to Asia,it hit them in the pocket book
I'm Saudi but i'd really say that the ottomans Empire has a great history of course any country has some issues but I still like how that many countries were against them just because they were powerful and the good thing that they rule by the Islamic law they don't force people to be learning their language or stuff other Empires would do to force people.🇸🇦🇹🇷
They did. Ottomans forced islam and their rule onto many. After all do you think the balkans was part of the ottomans by choice? LOL dont make me laugh. Ottomans went around the world converting and genociding. Why do you think albania and Bosnia are muslim? By choice? LOL
I watched both your videos about Ottomons and Saudi Arabia. As it is claimed, were Muhammad bin Saud and his religious partner Muhammad bin Abdul Wahab subject of Ottomons and did they revolt against Ottomons? Appreciate if you can explain that point.
According to most historians, the decline of the Ottoman Empire began in 1683 when they failed to capture Vienna. Even after Lepanto in 1571,there was still some expansion of the Ottoman Empire. Was it the aggressive expansion before Lepanto? No,but there was still expansion. Vienna in 1683 pretty much put the brakes on Ottoman expansion in Europe for good
It's important to note that the economic capitulations given to European powers and the shifting of the trade routes caused the Ottoman economy to absolutely crash. It is one of the main reasons as to why the empire's power had diminished. The janissaries only started out as a solely European slave force, later on Turks started to push their children to join the corps as well. Also, you shouldn't have included Hatay as part of the map when you said Arab World etc as it is Turkish.
A bit of a let down to ignore the achievements of the Ottoman Empire from 1878-1908 under sultan Abdulhamid ii. The longest reigning ottoman sultan in the late period doesn’t get any attention: How he managed to save the empire for another 30 years during a time of war and fragility is remarkable . He built railroads , schools, hospitals, military academies paid off 90% of the £200,000,000 ottoman debt which had ravaged the empire since 1880 and earlier as well as single handedly defeated Greece in 1897. Formed a strong alliance with Germany as well as invested a lot on the army through the German Krupp company. The moment he is dethroned by the young Turks the empire collapses within 10 years.
@@invalidnoun4746 “Drang nach Osten'in nihai başarısızlığının nedenlerini ararken, Temmuz 1908'deki Jön Türk devriminin stratejik çöküşünü gözden kaçırmamalıyız. Ortaya çıkan siyasi kargaşa ve Sultan Abdülhamid'in otoritesinin zayıflaması Almanlara iki yıla mal oldu. Bağdat demiryolu - ve İtalyan ve Balkan savaşlarını devrimden doğan Osmanlı zayıflığının meyvesi olarak görürsek, muhtemelen beş. Daha da zarar verici olanı, Jön Türklerin Abdülhamid'in Nisan 1909'da zorla tahttan indirilmesiyle açılan ve Arap isyanında Şerif Hüseyin tarafından bu kadar vahim bir şekilde ifşa edilen İslam dünyasındaki uçurumdu - Hicaz demiryolunun Mekke'ye kadar uzatılması düşünülemezdi. Padişahın tahttan indirilmesi olmasaydı kesinlikle olurdu. İyi ya da kötü, Abdülhamid'in düşüşü Türkiye'yi, Bağdat demiryolunu ve Sünni Müslüman dayanışmasını Kaiser-Oppenheim kutsal savaşının ayaklarını kesmeye yetecek kadar zayıflattı." Alıntı Berlin-Bağdat Ekspresi: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ve Almanya'nın Dünya Gücü Hedefi Sean McMeekin
@@Baysal_Alisan “he sold territory” he lost the arm to save the body. How about your profile picture where he lost the Libyan war, the Balkan wars and World War One… then decides it’s time to flee and leave whatever’s left of the empire in flames 👏🤣 he tarnished the term Turk and still to this day turkey hasn’t recovered from his stupid inexperienced decisions. Complains about Abdulhamid who at the very least kept the state going and improving whereas Enver pasha , no he’s good for losing a whole empire within a decade
The Young Turk Revolution Of 1908 was not only why Bulgaria became independent, but also why Austria-Hungary was able to annex Bosnia/Herzegovina as well.
The proposed Bulgaria, following the Treaty Of San Stefano,was a bridge too far for the powers of Europe: 1. France,Britain, and probably the Ottomans didn't want Russia to have access to the Mediterranean Sea as they feared it would make Russia a threat in North Africa. 2. Austria-Hungary was against it because they feared it gave Russia too much influence in the Balkans.
I would honestly cite 1683, when the Ottomans failed for a second time to capture Vienna,as the true start of their decline. I'll argue that the period from 1571, after Lepanto,to 1683, before the second attempt to take Vienna, as a period of stagnant expansion. What I mean by that is even during the period I referred to earlier,the Ottomans were still expanding, just not at the aggressive level they were prior to Lepanto.
The west ended the ottoman empire along with rebellion of vassals. Also they couldn't handle the ruskies is another reason too. But Britain had alot to do with vassals rebellion against Turkey.
They were not called Caliphs, they tried to claim the title, only two actually tried to claim it, but there's no solid historical ceremonies of such important title being transformed to them. They themselves called themselves Sultans. Two called themselves caliphs just for a political game nothing more.
They ''were'' Calips and did not just claim it, Ottoman Empire was the last great age for Islam, Calpihate is not something that passes through ceremonies, a caliph is a person charged with being the imam of the Muslims and the guardian of the Shari'a and Sultans of the Ottoman Empire was exactly that, to be honest there wasn't even a closer nation to claim the title.
@@youravaragetoxicmasculinem9508 They were not in any way representatives of the true faith, they were SUFIS, they didn't even do Hajj. they ruined the Islamic world and lead to its demise and fall into corruption, diseases, and the disappearance of knowledge. They didn't call themselves Caliphs, they called themselves sultans, except for two cunts, one Selim the horrible who invaded Egypt and the levant and his armies burnt down libraries, and committed massacres similar to that the Mongols did in Baghdad, and the second one was Abdulhamid the second when he was facing Russia, trying to provoke the Muslims within Russian lands to join him. If that title was easily claimed, why didn't every single Muslim sultan/king claim to be caliph of their own respective group??? MAMLUKS who were the protectors of the Abbasid Caliphate and hosted the Caliph in Cairo after the fall of Baghdad, never ever claimed that title nor even tried to take it from the Abbasid Caliph, heck they even tried to reestablish the Abbasid Caliphate again in Baghdad. The Ottomans are the one and only reason the Muslim world is no longer in its former glory, and they are the main and the only reason why the title of Caliph is no longer that important, because they destroyed it with their brutal invasion of the levant and then Egypt. Now look at the descendants of the ottomans, allying themselves with Israel, are members of the NATO, and helped destroy Syria, Iraq and Libya. they even tried to ruin Egypt AGAIN. Never have I ever witnessed a nation so arrogant and so full of itself such as the ottomans, and they were and are still very racist and envious of the Arabs specifically.
Maybe it didn't deserve to fall, they were literally the Muslim version of Rome for some period of time before they got incomponent and became oppressive. It explains why the Orthodoxs backed Ottomans during the Ottoman Civil War and never attempted to revolt.
@@guywithacreativename5134I agree Ottomans were actually starting to intergrate the rest of the empire if it was successful with a strong government we could see a united empire in the Middle East
The fall of the Ottoman Empire was caused by Large minorities,no modernisation ( Led to the defeat of both the Balkan and Italian - Turkish war and a unstable government) The fact is if the government was strong and had the same level of nationalism as the people we could see that the the Ottoman Empire may still have existed or dissolved after ww2 instead
Pl read this peace message: " The Ottamans set such a good example as pacific conquerors that they won the confidence of many former Byzantine subjects . For example , when Nicaea fell , Orhan allowed all who wanted to leave the city to depart freely , taking with them their holy relics , but few availed themselves of the chance . No reprisals were taken against those who had resisted , and the city was left to manage its internal affairs under its own municipal government . BOOK : Encyclopaedia of the Ottoman Empire . AUTHOR : Gabor Agoston and Bruce Masters . Edition : 2009 page -109 .
so the ottoman is indeed the islamic version of Byzantine empire. having almost 0 allies, constant wars, having many rivalry troughout its history, and got many preasure from every side of its teritory in the end of their era.
Russia had a lot to do with ottoman empire falling apart. Russia had turkeys number. Russia got a lot of wins over the ottoman empire. Britain went ahead and backstabbing Turkish empire by sneaking support to vassals and influence to leave turkey reign. Turkey fell apart.
Ottoman empire remained backward thanks to Islam . a region that is still backward today. and would be in an even worse state if not for oil. the sharia law made minorities inferior to their muslim overlords and stopped all incentives or initiatives. the last lash out - the Armenian Genocide, which Turkey has never accepted responsibilty for ( imagine if modern Germany still denied the Holocaust!?) - showed it had not reformed at all and deserved to be torn down. thankfully the British Empire put the Ottomans out of everyone's misery.
Let’s not blame Islam here as many gulf countries are Muslim also but don’t lack like the ottomans did, the ottomans were backwards and hypocrites they were Muslim but confused ones it was their own polices which brought them down not Islam
@@marshallsilverstar9636 when the ottomens held the middle east it was calm no terrorism and extremists and for that time that standard of living was good a few hundrad years ago it was acceptable for you not to bath Yoy cant compare that time to now in morals and living standards laws etc
The Ottomans did not create Hagia Sofia, they conquered it, converted it to Mosques by adding large placates and minarets. Also, before people go on about Palestine, I think the Turks should all leave Turkey and give back to the Roman Greeks first, when that happens we can talk about Palestine.
Pl go through this history ; ( i ). " The main reason for Ottaman success , however , was the development of stable and permanent institutions of government that transformed a tribal polity into a workable state ". ( ii ) " The Ottamans utilized all human resources in their emirate and quickly learned skills in bureaucracy and diplomacy ........ They also did not slaughter every Christian in their path ; rather , they encouraged the Christian inhabitants of the countryside and the towns to join them . Islamic law and tradition declared that enemies who surrendered on demand should be treated with tolerance . ( iii ). " The Christians of Bithynia were obliged to pay the ' harac ' , or capitation tax , for the privilege of being tolerated , but this was no more burdensome than the taxes they had paid to the Byzantine government , which had neglected their interests . Once they had made the decision to surrender or defect , the Byzantine population resigned to their fate ". " Some Christians converted to Islam upon joining the Ottamans ; however, this was not demanded . Many local Christians even participated in Ottaman raids against Byzantium ". BOOK : Encyclopaedia of the Ottoman Empire . AUTHOR : Gabor Agoston and Bruce Masters . Edition : 2009 page -109 . "Existing sources , such as the 25th century Ottoman census records , suggest that the earliest converts to Islam in the Balkans came from the ranks of the Balkan nobility and military elite that could supply the Ottomans with the manpower ............. BOOK : Encyclopaedia of the Ottoman Empire . AUTHOR : Gabor Agoston and Bruce Masters . Edition : 2009 page -146 .
@@mertroll1 you shrank and we expanded….we control 2000 islands and the entire Aegean Sea is a Greek lake. We liberated Thessaloniki and Kavala, and soon Imvros and Tenedos, you are encircled by Greece, we control the entrance to the Dardanelles. You are a weak autocratic Arab statelet ..no wonder they call you turkeys 🦃
@@mertroll1 well their Independence was the beginning of the End. It showed that the Empire wasn’t strong enough anymore, and the Europeans realized that they could use it as they like, by Using the National Problems in the Empire
The representation of the Ottoman Empire map is innacurate. The Valachia & Moldova were NEVER part of the empire (that is a big chunk of land north of Danube River, west of the Black Sea. The 2 Romanian contries were NEVER lead by a Pasha. They paied Haraci, but they were not under islamic legislation. Also their rullers constantly seeked aid to fight the Ottomans, from their Christian neighbours.
That was the good choice. Imagine if they had knocked down the Church. Instead of destroying history, beauty, religion and culture, they repurposed it. The one good thing they did.
@@LookBackHistory Mustafa Kemal Atatürk actually noticed the war aproaching in his deathbed and with his words from before ( war if not needed is genocide ) Turkey stayed away
It's not that they were Lucky, it's Britain had backstab the ottoman empire by influence vassal states to leave turkey. Also they would have gotten whooped by the ruskies. Russia had turkeys number in wars. Turkey could beat a lot of nations but when they faced Russia, they always got thrashed.
Good video but 2 mistakes: 1. The Ottomans didn’t sign the Treaty of Sevres. They did sign with the diplomats but to make it active they had do accept it in the parliament, which never happened 2 Mustafa Kemal Pasha didn’t found the Turkish National Movement. The movement was civilian organized with little help of the Ottoman government, they send Mustafa Kemal Pasha as general to take the place of leader of this already existing movement.
Here is my take on the matter of Sultans being Caliph, Ottoman sultans rarely referred to themselves as Caliphs unless they needed to galvanize muslim population around them because they know they can’t be Caliphs since they are not of Quraysh Tribe which prophet Mohammed to belongs to and he declared that rulers should be from that specific Tribe. Thats why ISIS in an effort to gain legitimacy, they appoint their “Caliph” from a supposed Qurayshi linage. Moreover, Ottomans are actually the ones who ended Caliphate from at least theoretical standpoint since Last Abassite de Jure Caliph was captured by Ottomans and forced to relinquish his honorary powers to them, so after that point, No defacto muslim ruler needed approval of a phony Caliph.
Shame you ignored the Armenian Genocide which killed 1-1.5 million innocent Armenians (and others Christians eg Greeks, Assyrians). Would you make a video on Nazi Germany and ignore the Holocaust?
@@lucyadam9128 No, they killed every Christian ethnicity, after all Christians were seen as disloyal as they were second class citizens, and wouldn’t be loyal to the Caliph. Also, many Assyrians are Christians.
@@AG-vb6vv no actually they killed everyone who wasn't Turkish they also killed Arab muslims especially after the Arabs rebelling against them so it was more of an ethnic genocide Also it wasn't the sultan and caliph who did it , it was the young Turks nationalist You watched the video right, the caliph was just a puppet for the secret society at that point So the ottomans were just used as a scape goat by the Turkish nationalist to escape from responsibility
@@lucyadam9128 No, they didn’t kill Arab Muslims, have you not read on the Armenian Genocide. Back then, they were trying to build an Ottoman identity - amongst the Muslims of the empire. It’s only when that failed, did Turkish become their focus. They only killed/genocides those considered disloyal to the empire ie the kaffir, Christians, no Muslims were deported to the desert to die.
@@AG-vb6vv no they also killed Arab, I know it might sound surprising to you but Turks world rather die than be called arabs They killed Armenian Greek and Syrian but mostly Armenians
The word ottoman came from the name osman. They called themselves the ottomans. Only sultan (unless you can prove me wrong) who called himself Caesar was sultan mehmed II
They didn't call themselves Rome, nor did they call themselves Ottomans, but called themselves Devlet-i Aliyye, "That Most Grand State"; sometimes called as "That Most Grand State of Osman". The Emperors (Padishahs, meaning Shah of all), held many titles among them was Kayser-i Rum. Caesar of Rome. However, this is as a tradition from the Medieval Eras, of conquering Emperors and rulers, not just Ottomans, but everyone back then, collecting the titles. Thus, after the conquest of Constantinople, Mehmed II "Fatih" took on the name of Kayser-i-Rum, in that tradition. But Ottoman sultans had many other titles they held simultaneously - Sultan (denoting both "de facto" {although with a war with Karaman} inherited Seljuk crown and the later added by conquest Ayyubid crown of Baghdad and "Sham" (Levant)), Shah of All (Padishah), King of all Vojvode, Shah of Shahs, Caliph of Muslims, and oldest of the titles they held and often put at the end of their entire nomer, Khan. TLDR: Yesn't
Libya and Balkan territories were lost win the young Turks were rulers. Abdul Hamid stood against Europe 33 years and he let the empire live for 33 years.
Reasons: 1-Ottomans were not imperialist and their economy was based on tax revenues. When reached to natural borders (deserts) and strong empires (Russians and Holy Roman) expansion of revenues stopped. 2-No industrial revolution and it's been weaken century by century 3-French Revolution, rise of nationalism and lose of European regions
1. The Death of Suleiman left the empire out of its golden age of culture. 2. Holy League's coalition against the Ottoman navy left them weakened. Not necessarily weak, just stagnated progress post--Golden age. The Ottomans did briefly manage to hold onto their lands, but: 3. Ottoman empire was diverse, and contained many peoples that were conquered and didn't want to be, so: 4. The Ottoman Empire gave diverse in ethnic or religious region some autonomy. This was good, however made the Empire decentralised and with some regions having too much unique power, it was hard to govern. 5-6. Many Ottoman leaders also had the tendency to seize a lot of power for themselves. As you said, the empire was built on tax revenue, so if it reached a natural border, desert, or foreign power, ability to extend, specifically into places that tax revenue can be gained began to be limited. 7. After 1768-74 Russo-Turkish war, huge consequences were met, and the Ottomans, who were having trouble balancing already, were pushed off of the limit. Post--loss of Crimea and Greece, it was clear Ottomans were losing might against Europeans. Eastern Question!
You should of pointed out that when the Europeans found new trade routes to asia that was basically the beginning of the end for the ottomans Because the silk road was not needed which generated a lot of wealth for the ottomans and basically eventually led to the ottomans becoming irrelevant in all right
when the Portuguese reached the Persian Gulf from the other side and even threatened them in the Red Sea, the Ottoman trade model had basically gone worthless within a single moment. As a side effect also the trade model of Venice and Genoa had become worthless. The Portuguese managed to reroute the whole trade with India, Indochina, China and East Africa towards the Cape of Good Hope and further to Lisbon. By that they also killed the silk road and the whole Islamic world, from North Africa to Central Asia drifted into economic decline and later total economic insignificance. With coffee and sugar cane planted in the Caribbean and Brazil even that trade was lost for the Islamic world. Later cotton from the Americas did the rest.
@@ekesandras1481 this ^^^^^^
Hardly.
The Ottomans continued to be the European Hegemon all the way up to the 18th Century. The Europeans discovered ways around the Ottomans as early as 1488, while the Ottomans didn't hit their stride until the 1600s.
@@Killzoneguy117 it did help to their downfall tho
This isn’t true
You can still feel the effects of the fall.
Absolutely, across the Balkans and the Arab world in particular.
id rather be at war for 2000 years than be under the ottomans for one year. ALLAH W LEBNEN🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧
@@tonikeirouz7347 Ok
@@tonikeirouz7347 don't you know the bad ottoman came later?.
@@bosbanon3452 i do. ottomans were cool until the young turks came to power. today most turks are fascists who follow kemalism or are neo-imperialists who follow enver pasha’s genocidal ideals
This guy deserves more subscribers and views. Don’t give up man just keep uploading and eventually the algorithm will work out.
He needs to find a big UA-camr who is willing to collaborate.
Definitely no plans on giving up here!
No he doesn’t dude, he sucks. His information is weak and misleading, along with constantly painting half pictures with the ideas he’s attempting to convey.
@@NoNo-oi7zj yeah dude I was wrong, unsubscribed few weeks after this comment.
How do you find these observations? This is some history I'm not as informed on and the main page suggested so I clicked it and will watch some other stuff, maybe read if I can find a particular book, but I appreciate seeing these comments if only to remind myself that many sources are needed, to really understand.
Ottaman :
In the 18
the century, the Ottoman Empire began to establish permanent diplomatic
missions in London, Paris, Vienna and Berlin. As a result of these contacts all things
Turkish became exotic, not least the dress fashion, “turquoisie”. Sultans and pashas
were often portrayed as noble and enlightened people in contrast to European rulers.
At the Prussian and Saxon courts, feasts, processions and weddings were held á laTurc and Turkish manners became a way for the upper classes to distance themselves
from common people. Turkish kiosks were erected in Swedish manorial parks too
and Gustav III built a Turkish pavilion at Haga Park.
In the 18
th
century, Ignatius Mouradgea, a translator (dragoman) of Armenian origin
at the Swedish Embassy in Istanbul, contributed to spreading knowledge and a
positive image of Turkey in Europe through his encyclopaedic volume entitled
Tableau Général de l’Empire Ottoman. He was later knighted by Gustav III acquiring
the name d’Ohsson and was for a time head of the Embassy in Istanbul.
Turkish Janissary music inspired among others Mozart and Schubert to compose music à la turca. And with the age of enlightenment and Romanticism there was increased interest in the exotic and greater tolerance of and curiosity about other
religions and cultures, which was reflected in the image of the Turk who now came to
be regarded in many quarters as the “noble savage”.
Article : The Turks as a threat and Europe's " other "
Author : lngmar karlsson
Seems like massive Turkish cope to me
@@anon2427 it literally is lol
As an Indonesian muslim i knew some muslim in my country joined hizbut tahrir , they're against nationalism , and caused many controversies
Another wonderful informative video
Glad you think so!
I sometimes wish the Ottoman Empire didn’t collapse I’m from Iraq and the idea of Turkia Iraq and the Levant being one block in our current day sounds like something powerful
I do agree with that
@@celien28 glad to know
@bazah23 the atrocities of the Ottoman Empire towards thosexwho they deemed below them are well documented. Good riddance to an evil empire.
Excellent and clear history. Thank you.
Good video. Loss of trade, due to European sailors, was important too
Another factor in the decline was a financial one.
See when they captured Constantinople in 1453,it did 2 things: 1. It gave them control over all trade between the Black and Mediterranean Seas. and 2. It gave them control over all the overland trade routes to Asia(ie China, India, and the Spice Islands).
Both of those meant that the Ottomans could tax shipping as they controlled the only routes available at the time.
So the European powers had one of 3 options:
1. Cut a deal with the Ottomans,like Venice did,so you could continue trade.
2. Find a new route to Asia
3. Say "screw Asia altogether" and find a new market to exploit
Most European powers did a combination of 2 and 3.
This had a cumulative effect on the Ottomans as once it was realized you didn't need their shipping routes to get to Asia,it hit them in the pocket book
Great video bro
Glad you enjoyed!
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Keep your content up, man, I hope you'll give History Matters a run for his money.
8:35 boy, what a painting!
Keep em coming.
Curious you omitted the Siege of Vienna, 1683. Stopped the advance of Ottoman forces west.
@@bobblue_west yeah it was really strange, especially as it's considered the event that broke the ottomans power
great job once again
Thanks, I'm glad you keep coming back!
@@LookBackHistory yeah no problem, I like your channel
nice vid
Might seem like a dumb question
But how do I make these maps
For a killer presentation at college
Great job btw enjoying the content
It's not a dumb question as they're quite tricky to do. However, you're going to have to figure it out for yourself.
Is it on the maps for mappers website
amazing video pal, keep it up
I'm Saudi but i'd really say that the ottomans Empire has a great history of course any country has some issues but I still like how that many countries were against them just because they were powerful and the good thing that they rule by the Islamic law they don't force people to be learning their language or stuff other Empires would do to force people.🇸🇦🇹🇷
nope, united arab league is the only way forward, multiculturalism is trash just like equality.
They did. Ottomans forced islam and their rule onto many. After all do you think the balkans was part of the ottomans by choice? LOL dont make me laugh. Ottomans went around the world converting and genociding. Why do you think albania and Bosnia are muslim? By choice? LOL
I watched both your videos about Ottomons and Saudi Arabia. As it is claimed, were Muhammad bin Saud and his religious partner Muhammad bin Abdul Wahab subject of Ottomons and did they revolt against Ottomons? Appreciate if you can explain that point.
Could you please inform me what editing software you use? Also, what do you use to make the maps?
Much thanks, your videos are amazing.
According to most historians, the decline of the Ottoman Empire began in 1683 when they failed to capture Vienna.
Even after Lepanto in 1571,there was still some expansion of the Ottoman Empire.
Was it the aggressive expansion before Lepanto?
No,but there was still expansion.
Vienna in 1683 pretty much put the brakes on Ottoman expansion in Europe for good
Nah I personally see the government at fault. It’s was a mess which led to foreign powers taking advantage and it then just crumbles down
@@ChezzyDRMlolThe incompetence of the Ottoman central government was definitely a factor
It's important to note that the economic capitulations given to European powers and the shifting of the trade routes caused the Ottoman economy to absolutely crash. It is one of the main reasons as to why the empire's power had diminished.
The janissaries only started out as a solely European slave force, later on Turks started to push their children to join the corps as well.
Also, you shouldn't have included Hatay as part of the map when you said Arab World etc as it is Turkish.
He actually depicted territories that were in control of the Ottomans in 1918 and in the more than just Hatay is in red
A bit of a let down to ignore the achievements of the Ottoman Empire from 1878-1908 under sultan Abdulhamid ii. The longest reigning ottoman sultan in the late period doesn’t get any attention: How he managed to save the empire for another 30 years during a time of war and fragility is remarkable . He built railroads , schools, hospitals, military academies paid off 90% of the £200,000,000 ottoman debt which had ravaged the empire since 1880 and earlier as well as single handedly defeated Greece in 1897. Formed a strong alliance with Germany as well as invested a lot on the army through the German Krupp company. The moment he is dethroned by the young Turks the empire collapses within 10 years.
I never realized this, thanks for the info
He is the sultan who lost most territory in Ottoman history.
@@invalidnoun4746 “Drang nach Osten'in nihai başarısızlığının nedenlerini ararken, Temmuz 1908'deki Jön Türk devriminin stratejik çöküşünü gözden kaçırmamalıyız. Ortaya çıkan siyasi kargaşa ve Sultan Abdülhamid'in otoritesinin zayıflaması Almanlara iki yıla mal oldu. Bağdat demiryolu - ve İtalyan ve Balkan savaşlarını devrimden doğan Osmanlı zayıflığının meyvesi olarak görürsek, muhtemelen beş. Daha da zarar verici olanı, Jön Türklerin Abdülhamid'in Nisan 1909'da zorla tahttan indirilmesiyle açılan ve Arap isyanında Şerif Hüseyin tarafından bu kadar vahim bir şekilde ifşa edilen İslam dünyasındaki uçurumdu - Hicaz demiryolunun Mekke'ye kadar uzatılması düşünülemezdi. Padişahın tahttan indirilmesi olmasaydı kesinlikle olurdu. İyi ya da kötü, Abdülhamid'in düşüşü Türkiye'yi, Bağdat demiryolunu ve Sünni Müslüman dayanışmasını Kaiser-Oppenheim kutsal savaşının ayaklarını kesmeye yetecek kadar zayıflattı."
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Berlin-Bağdat Ekspresi: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ve Almanya'nın Dünya Gücü Hedefi
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He sold territory and licked british boots in order to not get into the war
@@Baysal_Alisan “he sold territory” he lost the arm to save the body. How about your profile picture where he lost the Libyan war, the Balkan wars and World War One… then decides it’s time to flee and leave whatever’s left of the empire in flames 👏🤣 he tarnished the term Turk and still to this day turkey hasn’t recovered from his stupid inexperienced decisions. Complains about Abdulhamid who at the very least kept the state going and improving whereas Enver pasha , no he’s good for losing a whole empire within a decade
Implying that the Hagia Sofia is a cultural marvel and product of the Ottomans is intellectually dishonest.
Believing that that building was the Hagia Sophia is intellectually lazy.
It wasn’t that mate tho was it
The Young Turk Revolution Of 1908 was not only why Bulgaria became independent, but also why Austria-Hungary was able to annex Bosnia/Herzegovina as well.
The proposed Bulgaria, following the Treaty Of San Stefano,was a bridge too far for the powers of Europe:
1. France,Britain, and probably the Ottomans didn't want Russia to have access to the Mediterranean Sea as they feared it would make Russia a threat in North Africa.
2. Austria-Hungary was against it because they feared it gave Russia too much influence in the Balkans.
I would honestly cite 1683, when the Ottomans failed for a second time to capture Vienna,as the true start of their decline.
I'll argue that the period from 1571, after Lepanto,to 1683, before the second attempt to take Vienna, as a period of stagnant expansion.
What I mean by that is even during the period I referred to earlier,the Ottomans were still expanding, just not at the aggressive level they were prior to Lepanto.
Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt and his popularization of Nationalism Ended the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottomons were too little too late to the Roman Empire larp game.
Holy Shit!!!
if i drinked a shot every time he says "Empire"" in the video i would be DRUNK right now!!
Lol
The west ended the ottoman empire along with rebellion of vassals. Also they couldn't handle the ruskies is another reason too. But Britain had alot to do with vassals rebellion against Turkey.
Bosnias where muslims and still are Muslims
These eyes :)
I only just realised this isnt one of the big channels. production quality could have fooled me.
Some maps are in some parts a bit wrong, no hate
They were not called Caliphs, they tried to claim the title, only two actually tried to claim it, but there's no solid historical ceremonies of such important title being transformed to them.
They themselves called themselves Sultans.
Two called themselves caliphs just for a political game nothing more.
They ''were'' Calips and did not just claim it, Ottoman Empire was the last great age for Islam, Calpihate is not something that passes through ceremonies, a caliph is a person charged with being the imam of the Muslims and the guardian of the Shari'a and Sultans of the Ottoman Empire was exactly that, to be honest there wasn't even a closer nation to claim the title.
@@youravaragetoxicmasculinem9508 They were not in any way representatives of the true faith, they were SUFIS, they didn't even do Hajj.
they ruined the Islamic world and lead to its demise and fall into corruption, diseases, and the disappearance of knowledge.
They didn't call themselves Caliphs, they called themselves sultans, except for two cunts, one Selim the horrible who invaded Egypt and the levant and his armies burnt down libraries, and committed massacres similar to that the Mongols did in Baghdad, and the second one was Abdulhamid the second when he was facing Russia, trying to provoke the Muslims within Russian lands to join him.
If that title was easily claimed, why didn't every single Muslim sultan/king claim to be caliph of their own respective group???
MAMLUKS who were the protectors of the Abbasid Caliphate and hosted the Caliph in Cairo after the fall of Baghdad, never ever claimed that title nor even tried to take it from the Abbasid Caliph, heck they even tried to reestablish the Abbasid Caliphate again in Baghdad.
The Ottomans are the one and only reason the Muslim world is no longer in its former glory, and they are the main and the only reason why the title of Caliph is no longer that important, because they destroyed it with their brutal invasion of the levant and then Egypt.
Now look at the descendants of the ottomans, allying themselves with Israel, are members of the NATO, and helped destroy Syria, Iraq and Libya. they even tried to ruin Egypt AGAIN.
Never have I ever witnessed a nation so arrogant and so full of itself such as the ottomans, and they were and are still very racist and envious of the Arabs specifically.
this empire deserved to fall
Maybe it didn't deserve to fall, they were literally the Muslim version of Rome for some period of time before they got incomponent and became oppressive. It explains why the Orthodoxs backed Ottomans during the Ottoman Civil War and never attempted to revolt.
@@guywithacreativename5134I agree Ottomans were actually starting to intergrate the rest of the empire if it was successful with a strong government we could see a united empire in the Middle East
The fall of the Ottoman Empire was caused by Large minorities,no modernisation ( Led to the defeat of both the Balkan and Italian - Turkish war and a unstable government) The fact is if the government was strong and had the same level of nationalism as the people we could see that the the Ottoman Empire may still have existed or dissolved after ww2 instead
Man of Otto Imperium
The video describes very religiously HOW the Ottoman empire ended... but not why.
Muhammad Ali pasha of Tepelena and Muhammad Ali pasha of Egypt both 🇦🇱
They built the Hagia Sophia?
Nope.
It was Justinian of the Christian Eastern Roman empire in the 6th century who built it
What building was that in the beginning when you mentioned the marvelous things they built?
That's the Blue Mosque bro.
Thank you
Pl read this peace message:
" The Ottamans set such a good example as pacific conquerors that they won the confidence of many former Byzantine subjects . For example , when Nicaea fell , Orhan allowed all who wanted to leave the city to depart freely , taking with them their holy relics , but few availed themselves of the chance . No reprisals were taken against those who had resisted , and the city was left to manage its internal affairs under its own municipal government . BOOK : Encyclopaedia of the Ottoman Empire . AUTHOR : Gabor Agoston and Bruce Masters . Edition : 2009 page -109 .
so the ottoman is indeed the islamic version of Byzantine empire. having almost 0 allies, constant wars, having many rivalry troughout its history, and got many preasure from every side of its teritory in the end of their era.
Excellent.
As far as I know it was the Russians which attacked Ali Pasha, not the Brits...
Russia had a lot to do with ottoman empire falling apart. Russia had turkeys number. Russia got a lot of wins over the ottoman empire. Britain went ahead and backstabbing Turkish empire by sneaking support to vassals and influence to leave turkey reign. Turkey fell apart.
Ottoman empire remained backward thanks to Islam . a region that is still backward today. and would be in an even worse state if not for oil. the sharia law made minorities inferior to their muslim overlords and stopped all incentives or initiatives. the last lash out - the Armenian Genocide, which Turkey has never accepted responsibilty for ( imagine if modern Germany still denied the Holocaust!?) - showed it had not reformed at all and deserved to be torn down. thankfully the British Empire put the Ottomans out of everyone's misery.
Let’s not blame Islam here as many gulf countries are Muslim also but don’t lack like the ottomans did, the ottomans were backwards and hypocrites they were Muslim but confused ones it was their own polices which brought them down not Islam
Best empire in history 😍
It’s dead forever
It was abolished by Ataturk, islamophobia followed afterwards.
@@turkishemir5735 Turkey suffers from christianophobia
Best at what exactly?
It commited a genocide against armanians
You can feel the effect on the world the arabs the balkans and north africa before everyone was good after death and failded states
@@marshallsilverstar9636 the balkans started ww1 3 balkand war greece in hell of alot in debt egypt population and population density
@@marshallsilverstar9636 algeria tunis tripolie iraq syria
@@marshallsilverstar9636 when the ottomens held the middle east it was calm no terrorism and extremists and for that time that standard of living was good a few hundrad years ago it was acceptable for you not to bath
Yoy cant compare that time to now in morals and living standards laws etc
@@marshallsilverstar9636 ye
@@marshallsilverstar9636 i will argue with you tomorrow i am going to sleep
The Ottomans did not create Hagia Sofia, they conquered it, converted it to Mosques by adding large placates and minarets. Also, before people go on about Palestine, I think the Turks should all leave Turkey and give back to the Roman Greeks first, when that happens we can talk about Palestine.
I think you've mistaken the Blue Mosque for Hagia Sophia.
That cultural marvel shown wasn't built by the Ottomans
You're not the first person to comment this, and you're not the first person to be wrong.
@@LookBackHistory you are correct my sincere apologies.
Pl go through this history ;
( i ). " The main reason for Ottaman success , however , was the development of stable and permanent institutions of government that transformed a tribal polity into a workable state ".
( ii ) " The Ottamans utilized all human resources in their emirate and quickly learned skills in bureaucracy and diplomacy ........ They also did not slaughter every Christian in their path ; rather , they encouraged the Christian inhabitants of the countryside and the towns to join them . Islamic law and tradition declared that enemies who surrendered on demand should be treated with tolerance .
( iii ). " The Christians of Bithynia were obliged to pay the ' harac ' , or capitation tax , for the privilege of being tolerated , but this was no more burdensome than the taxes they had paid to the Byzantine government , which had neglected their interests . Once they had made the decision to surrender or defect , the Byzantine population resigned to their fate ". " Some Christians converted to Islam upon joining the Ottamans ; however, this was not demanded . Many local Christians even participated in Ottaman raids against Byzantium ". BOOK : Encyclopaedia of the Ottoman Empire . AUTHOR : Gabor Agoston and Bruce Masters . Edition : 2009 page -109 .
"Existing sources , such as the 25th century Ottoman census records , suggest that the earliest converts to Islam in the Balkans came from the ranks of the Balkan nobility and military elite that could supply the Ottomans with the manpower ............. BOOK : Encyclopaedia of the Ottoman Empire . AUTHOR : Gabor Agoston and Bruce Masters . Edition : 2009 page -146 .
Greece ended it…that’s what ended it!
Greek wet dreams, the greeks got their independence in 1821, and the Ottoman empire continued to exist until 1918, you guys ended nothing lmao
@@mertroll1 you shrank and we expanded….we control 2000 islands and the entire Aegean Sea is a Greek lake. We liberated Thessaloniki and Kavala, and soon Imvros and Tenedos, you are encircled by Greece, we control the entrance to the Dardanelles. You are a weak autocratic Arab statelet ..no wonder they call you turkeys 🦃
@@mertroll1 well their Independence was the beginning of the End. It showed that the Empire wasn’t strong enough anymore, and the Europeans realized that they could use it as they like, by Using the National Problems in the Empire
@@shaq6976 The beginning of their end was the Russo-Turkish war. And that wasn't even the beginning of the beginning.
@@emre_iris Well said my friend
“The Ottomans weren’t stupid” Well….history would say otherwise
It was 50/50 some were stupid and some weren’t. And the stuff the stupid ones did caused the end. Military wise they were smart
The representation of the Ottoman Empire map is innacurate. The Valachia & Moldova were NEVER part of the empire (that is a big chunk of land north of Danube River, west of the Black Sea. The 2 Romanian contries were NEVER lead by a Pasha. They paied Haraci, but they were not under islamic legislation. Also their rullers constantly seeked aid to fight the Ottomans, from their Christian neighbours.
Rip Ottoman Empire
the ended of ottoman isyoung turk.UK/Russia and all cristian govt in euro fighting islam because of nwo
Yeah. Russia had a lot to do with the decline of turkey.
Dr yasir qadhi has a great presentation on the fall of the Ottoman Empire called 1914. Its on UA-cam
Finally someone that doesn't yap about how «tUrKs mErCiLeSSlY mUrDeReD aRmEnIaNs iN cOlD bLoOd»
what ended the reign of the ottomans? sofas.
0:06 >cultural marvels
>added pillars to a church they didnt build
That's not the Hagia Sophia.
The shown building is the Blue mosque. If you watched closely instead of talking Bs then you might notice something
That was the good choice. Imagine if they had knocked down the Church. Instead of destroying history, beauty, religion and culture, they repurposed it. The one good thing they did.
It's the Blue Mosque. Occidental dunning-krugerism at its finest.
The Turkish were wise (and also lucky) to stay out of WW2.
I don't know much about WW2-era Turkey, but given the destruction that was endemic across the rest of Europe at the time, you're probably right.
@@LookBackHistory Mustafa Kemal Atatürk actually noticed the war aproaching in his deathbed and with his words from before ( war if not needed is genocide ) Turkey stayed away
@@iron-non to be fair it wasn’t difficult to see another war was coming
It's not that they were Lucky, it's Britain had backstab the ottoman empire by influence vassal states to leave turkey. Also they would have gotten whooped by the ruskies. Russia had turkeys number in wars. Turkey could beat a lot of nations but when they faced Russia, they always got thrashed.
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Good video but 2 mistakes:
1. The Ottomans didn’t sign the Treaty of Sevres. They did sign with the diplomats but to make it active they had do accept it in the parliament, which never happened
2 Mustafa Kemal Pasha didn’t found the Turkish National Movement. The movement was civilian organized with little help of the Ottoman government, they send Mustafa Kemal Pasha as general to take the place of leader of this already existing movement.
Here is my take on the matter of Sultans being Caliph, Ottoman sultans rarely referred to themselves as Caliphs unless they needed to galvanize muslim population around them because they know they can’t be Caliphs since they are not of Quraysh Tribe which prophet Mohammed to belongs to and he declared that rulers should be from that specific Tribe. Thats why ISIS in an effort to gain legitimacy, they appoint their “Caliph” from a supposed Qurayshi linage. Moreover, Ottomans are actually the ones who ended Caliphate from at least theoretical standpoint since Last Abassite de Jure Caliph was captured by Ottomans and forced to relinquish his honorary powers to them, so after that point, No defacto muslim ruler needed approval of a phony Caliph.
Skill issue
Shame you ignored the Armenian Genocide which killed 1-1.5 million innocent Armenians (and others Christians eg Greeks, Assyrians). Would you make a video on Nazi Germany and ignore the Holocaust?
Wait why did they kill the assyrians even though they were muslims
Did they kill everyone who wasn't Turkish
@@lucyadam9128 No, they killed every Christian ethnicity, after all Christians were seen as disloyal as they were second class citizens, and wouldn’t be loyal to the Caliph. Also, many Assyrians are Christians.
@@AG-vb6vv no actually they killed everyone who wasn't Turkish they also killed Arab muslims especially after the Arabs rebelling against them so it was more of an ethnic genocide
Also it wasn't the sultan and caliph who did it , it was the young Turks nationalist
You watched the video right, the caliph was just a puppet for the secret society at that point
So the ottomans were just used as a scape goat by the Turkish nationalist to escape from responsibility
@@lucyadam9128 No, they didn’t kill Arab Muslims, have you not read on the Armenian Genocide. Back then, they were trying to build an Ottoman identity - amongst the Muslims of the empire. It’s only when that failed, did Turkish become their focus. They only killed/genocides those considered disloyal to the empire ie the kaffir, Christians, no Muslims were deported to the desert to die.
@@AG-vb6vv no they also killed Arab, I know it might sound surprising to you but Turks world rather die than be called arabs
They killed Armenian Greek and Syrian but mostly Armenians
Islam
Ottomans
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Hmm yes what if the Ottomans colonized
Good riddance! It was only the inevitable and the Turks tried to delay and failed! 🇸🇾🇵🇸☦️
Fun fact the ottomans didn't call themselves the ottomans they saw themselves as Romans
The word ottoman came from the name osman. They called themselves the ottomans. Only sultan (unless you can prove me wrong) who called himself Caesar was sultan mehmed II
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@@Younghype- Osman is actually islamized version of otaman/ataman also
They didn't call themselves Rome, nor did they call themselves Ottomans, but called themselves Devlet-i Aliyye, "That Most Grand State"; sometimes called as "That Most Grand State of Osman". The Emperors (Padishahs, meaning Shah of all), held many titles among them was Kayser-i Rum. Caesar of Rome. However, this is as a tradition from the Medieval Eras, of conquering Emperors and rulers, not just Ottomans, but everyone back then, collecting the titles. Thus, after the conquest of Constantinople, Mehmed II "Fatih" took on the name of Kayser-i-Rum, in that tradition. But Ottoman sultans had many other titles they held simultaneously - Sultan (denoting both "de facto" {although with a war with Karaman} inherited Seljuk crown and the later added by conquest Ayyubid crown of Baghdad and "Sham" (Levant)), Shah of All (Padishah), King of all Vojvode, Shah of Shahs, Caliph of Muslims, and oldest of the titles they held and often put at the end of their entire nomer, Khan.
TLDR: Yesn't
@@HierophanticRose when ibn batuta a Moroccan traveler visited the empire he described it as home of the rum
So yeah
Libya and Balkan territories were lost win the young Turks were rulers. Abdul Hamid stood against Europe 33 years and he let the empire live for 33 years.
Reasons:
1-Ottomans were not imperialist and their economy was based on tax revenues. When reached to natural borders (deserts) and strong empires (Russians and Holy Roman) expansion of revenues stopped.
2-No industrial revolution and it's been weaken century by century
3-French Revolution, rise of nationalism and lose of European regions
The ottomans absolutely were imperialist. I’m not even sure how you could make that claim.
1. The Death of Suleiman left the empire out of its golden age of culture.
2. Holy League's coalition against the Ottoman navy left them weakened. Not necessarily weak, just stagnated progress post--Golden age. The Ottomans did briefly manage to hold onto their lands, but:
3. Ottoman empire was diverse, and contained many peoples that were conquered and didn't want to be, so:
4. The Ottoman Empire gave diverse in ethnic or religious region some autonomy. This was good, however made the Empire decentralised and with some regions having too much unique power, it was hard to govern.
5-6. Many Ottoman leaders also had the tendency to seize a lot of power for themselves. As you said, the empire was built on tax revenue, so if it reached a natural border, desert, or foreign power, ability to extend, specifically into places that tax revenue can be gained began to be limited.
7. After 1768-74 Russo-Turkish war, huge consequences were met, and the Ottomans, who were having trouble balancing already, were pushed off of the limit. Post--loss of Crimea and Greece, it was clear Ottomans were losing might against Europeans. Eastern Question!
1821 end it
With death of Mustafa its all over