10/17/18 By: Gabe Mathis, William Butler, and Cole Troyer The Ottoman Empire 10/17/18 By: Gabe Mathis, William Butler, and Cole Troyer

The Ottomans used cannons and other advanced weapons that involved the use of gunpowder. Many of the boys were trained for military service and became part of an elite fighting force called the janissaries, known for their allegiance to their Sultan. Military

The Ottomans were a Muslim tribal group that emerged in northwestern Anatolia in the late 1200s. They were ethnically diverse with large numbers of Greeks, Serbs, Bulgarians, Romanians, Armenians, Turks, and Arabs. Cultural

The Ottomans had a sultan, an absolute ruler, that was passed down through bloodline. The Ottoman Bureaucracy was a merit based system meaning most officials gained office based on their abilities, not there social position. Political

The upper-class(The Rulers) did not pay taxes; the lower-class(The Ruled) payed taxes on almost everything. The Ottomans levied a tax called the devshirme which required conquered regions to provide children to serve the sultan. Economic

The Ottomans were divided into two broad classes; the rulers which consisted of Muslims and non Muslims, and the ruled which consisted of farmers, artisans, and merchants. The Muslims had a higher standing than Christians or Jews. Social

Suleyman’s reign was the high point of the Ottoman Empire Suleyman’s reign was the high point of the Ottoman Empire. After his death in 1566, Ottoman power gradually declined. Due to weak and corrupt Sultans, and economic problems the empire began to die. Because of their failure to modernize early on the empire had shrunk and dissolved by the early 1900s. Reasons of Decline