The Ottoman Empire

1. The Ottoman Empire By Emma McCarthy and Amelia Kohl

2. Social Structure • the sultan or overall leader was on top of the social pyramid followed by rich servants of them who each ruled over a separate city state in the empire • The common people where known as Rahayyahwhich translates to mean the flock of the sultan they where the once who gave the country income through paying taxes • The women where not treated like the men they where expected to stay at home clean and look after the children • The family's where made up of a mother father and two or 3 children and some extended family

3. Political • The sultan, made most of the decisions on politics • The sultan had 20,000 personal slaves who worked for him and ruled over each millet or nation. • Their empire expanded from turkey down Cairo Egypt and up past Greece and Albania • Cairo Egypt was important to for them to take over because it had many scholars and a great education system • They also took over Bagdad which was an significant religious state to the Muslims

4. Map of the Ottoman Empire

5. Interactions • The Ottoman empire had a strong army that had cannons and used gun power • They took over the trade routes in northern Africa • As the empire expanded more trade routes became available to them • They also had a navy that worked hard on the Black sea to try to keep the pirates out.

6. Cultural and Religion As the ottoman empire expanded more cultures began to mix in to it. They had many cultural mixed in with them such as Greek Persian and northern Arabic They had a mixture of religions Christian Jewish and Muslim

7. Economic system • They had many supervisions on taxes especially on oversea goods such as fur grain and amber • They had the Kadi or judges in the streets to punish people who cheated. • Though moving the poor towns people into other cities which lead to unemployment was one of the factors that lead to their decline