1. Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

2. Osman I (Othman): 1299-1326

3. The Golden Age of the Ottomans

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

5. Mehmet I: 1413-1421

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

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: 1512-1520

20. Faith Mosque

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

22. Quran Page: Arabic Calligraphy

23. Calligraphy

24. Blue Mosque

25. Blue Mosque - interior

26. Prayer Rug, 16c Ottoman Empire

27. Illuminated Quran Page

29. Quran Page: Abrahams Sacrifice of Isaac

30. Quran Page: The Angel Gabriel Visits Muhammad

31. Collection of Taxes in Suleimans Court

32. Conversations Between Muslims & Christians

33. Scholars at the Galata Observatory (Suleimans Constantinople), 1557

34. Janissaries

35. Battle of Lepanto (1571)

37. The Ottoman Empire During the 16 c