1. Middle East 1350-1650 Ottoman Empire 1.Origins 2.Sultan Mehmet II 3.Capture of Constantinople 4.Ottoman Empire as a World Empire 5.Imperial Organization 6.Competing Images 7.Ottoman Empire and the Modern World

2. 1250-1350 Mongols Turks Indian Merchants EUROPEMIDDLE EASTASIA FlandersNorth SteppesChina Champ. F.Middle RouteSE Asia Italian CitiesSouthern Route India CrusadesArab Merchants Italian MerchantsItalian Merchants

4. 10 th Century engraving of Istanbul

5. Sultan Mehmet II (Reign: 1451-1481)

6. Constantinople

9. Hagia Sophia

10. Hagia Sophia, interior

12. Istanbul (by a Venetian artist)

13. Venice – by an Ottoman artist

14. Sultan Suleyman II (Suleiman the Magnificent) Reign:15201566

15. The Battle of Lepanto (1571)

16. Siege of Vienna (1683)

17. Imperial organization Military and civilian bureaucracy (devşirme system ) Agriculture and internal trade (guilds) Legal structure (Islam) Multi-ethnic and multi-religious society

18. Registration of children collected by devshirme

19. Seated Janissary, Bellini

21. Military and civilian bureaucracy (devşirme system ) Agriculture and internal trade (guilds) Legal structure (Islam) Multi-ethnic and multi-religious society

22. Sultan Mehmet II

27. Ottoman map of the world