The History of the Ottoman Empire

There hadn't been a greek state for a very long time prior to the greek revolution. The last 50 years under ottoman rule had seen the rise of a really important greek merchant marine that was to play a very important role, both in the planning and in the execution of the war. But there were an awful lot of greeks who did not think about rising up against the ottomans. And it was at the point where the local greeks realized they had been pushed into something that they could no longer avoid, that they decided to rise up. Some people thought this was a matter of generations. Other examples of such major upheavals can be