The Empires of Asia
Title: The Empires of Asia
Category: /History/Asian History
Details: Words: 1401 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Empires of Asia
Category: /History/Asian History
Details: Words: 1401 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Empires of Asia
Section 1: Muslim Empires
- The Ottoman Empire lasted from about 1300 to 1922. The Ottomans were named after Osman I, a Turkish chieftain who founded a state in Anatolia, now Turkey, in the late 1200's.
- The Ottomans claimed to be the champions of Sunni Islam. In 1453, Sultan Mehmet II conquered Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
- The city, now called Istanbul, became the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
- By 1600, the
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era was also a time of critical difficulties. The military government grew dull and strict.
- It discouraged individual freedoms and slowed commercial development. Government financial problems led to cuts in the income of samurai.
- Their declining incomes added to the samurai's growing dissatisfaction with Japan's rigid social structure, which prevented them from rising to better stations in life.
- Finally, poor harvests and harsh lords drove many peasants to join together in protest.