3. Trade Routes

4. CAUSES OF DECLINE Decline in Quality of Leadership Military Decline Economic Decline Moral Decline Rigidity

6. Topkapi Palace

7. Imperial Gate

8. Gate of Salutations

10. Gate of Felicity

11. Throne Room

13. Pavilion of the Holy Mantle

15. Room in harem

16. Chief Black Eunuch

18. OTTOMAN EMPIRE Sultanate of Women (1566 – 1656)

19. SULTANATE OF WOMEN Selim II 1566-74 Murad III 1574-95 Mehmed III 1595-1603 Ahmed I 1603-17 Mustafa I 1617-18; 1622-23 Osman II 1618-22 Murad IV 1623-40 Ibrahim 1640-48 Mehmed IV 1648-87

20. Selim II (“The Sot”) 1566-74