Essays on Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire began in 1299 and lasted for around 600 years. It came to an end in the year 1922. During the reign of the empire they experienced hardship and a population decline due to the plague. The plague was a horrendous disease, it was very widespread, and killed many people. At first everyone...

The theme of fiscal short-term solutions carried on into the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Ottoman bureaucrats focused more closely on ad-hoc solutions, not a real structural transformation, in hopes of generating faster outcomes. The collapse of the timar system, temporary land grants issued by the Sultan, were abandoned in favor of tax farming (auctioning...

Ottoman Empire, Islamic-run superpower was created by Turkish tribes in Anatolia which grew to be one of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th-16th century. The Ottoman flourished for more than 600 years and came to an end only in 1922, when it was replaced by the Turkish Republic. It was one...