A Short History of the Ottoman Empire
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Ottoman Empire - A True World Empire
By the fifteenth century, amid 14 hundreds, they are at the gates of constantinople itself. What was it about their ideology, their leadership that would prove capacious enough to keep all those potentially very fractious people under one leader? Partly it was their mongol eritance. Also, it was their islamic inheritance. And also, like other soni moslem powers, they tolerated christians and jews within their realms.
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