1. Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
The Early
Ottoman Empire s
Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

2. Osman I (Othman):

3. The Golden Age of the Ottomans

4. Tamerlane (1336-1405) or “Timur, the Lame”

5. Mehmet I:

6. The Ottoman Bureaucracy
SULTAN
Divans
Social / Military Divans
Heads of Individual Religious Millets
Muslims
Jews
Local Administrators & Military
Christians
Landowners / Tax Collectors

7. Mehmet II: 1444-1445; 1451-1481 (“The Conqueror”)

8. The Ottoman Capital -- Constantinople

9. “Golden Horn” – 15c map

10. “Golden Horn” from space

11. “Golden Horn”

12. Sunset on the “Golden Horn”

13. The Fall of Constantinople: 1453

14. Europeans vs. Turks

15. The End of the Byzantine Empire

16. Hagia Sophia

17. Hagia Sophia - interior

18. Siege of Constantinople, 1453

19. Selim I, ”the Grim”:

20. Faith Mosque

21. Suleiman the Magnificent: (1520-1566)
Suleiman’s Signature

22. Qur’an Page: Arabic Calligraphy

23. Calligraphy

24. Blue Mosque

25. Blue Mosque - interior

26. Prayer Rug, 16c Ottoman Empire

27. Illuminated Qur’an Page

28. Illuminated Qur’an Page

29. Qur’an Page: Abraham’s Sacrifice of Isaac

30. Qur’an Page: The Angel Gabriel Visits Muhammad

31. Collection of Taxes in Suleiman’s Court

32. Conversations Between Muslims & Christians

33. Scholars at the Galata Observatory (Suleiman’s Constantinople), 1557

34. Janissaries

35. Battle of Lepanto (1571)

36. Battle of Lepanto (1571)

37. The Ottoman Empire During the 16c