DUE SUNDAY MAY 1
1) What are the FIVE most interesting, surprising, and/or shocking things you have learned about the Ottoman Empire.
2) What questions do you still have about the Ottoman Empire?
3) Respond to at least TWO of your classmates’ posts in the following ways
-commenting on what they found most interesting/surprising/shocking
or
-answering the questions they posted.
or
-by posing follow-up questions to a classmates' post
*Only provide answers to your classmates’ questions when you are fairly confident you know the answer.
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5 of the most interesting things that I have learned about the Ottoman Empire:
ReplyDelete1. Sullyman would have christian boys taken from their homes to become elite warriors to battle.
2. Unlike most religions Sullyman allowed his people to practice whatever religion that they wanted as long as they payed taxes
3. The Ottoman empire's army had gun powdered guns and cannons against other armys that had only swords and arrows
4. Sullyman was depressed so he went into battle with his soldiers and died in his tent, his death was hidden from his soldiers for the rest of the battle so that they would not get discouraged.
5. Constantinople was conquered by the Ottomans getting in through an open gate in the walls of constantinople
Five things I have found interesting were:
ReplyDelete1. The Ottoman Empire lasted 600 years.
2. The Ottomans religion was Islamic.
3. By the late 1500's, the Ottomans controlled approximately 1/3 of Europe.
4. In the 1450's the Ottomans set their eyes on the city Constantinople, which was the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
5. The Ottomans were originally from Central Asia.
Questions:
1. Why could the Ottomans leader, Mehmet 2 only raise 5,000 troops against the Byzantine Empire?
What were the christian slave boys called?
ReplyDeleteWhy were the Ottomans the only army with gun powdwered guns and canons?
Meaghan,
ReplyDeletei agree, it was very interesting how the Ottoman empire lasted so long
Alex,
ReplyDeleteI also found it interesting that the Ottoman Empire's army had gun powdered guns and cannons against other armys that had only swords and arrows.
Alex,
ReplyDeleteI also agree that it was very surprising that Suleyman would have christian boys taken from their homes to become elite warriors to battle and no one else.
Five things I found interesting about the Ottamans were:
ReplyDelete1. Suleyman died in his tent and his troops forged his signature for 48 days.
2.The Ottomans get their name fron the first sucessful sultan named Osman.
3.It was hard to conquer Constantinople because it's walls were high, thick and tough to breach.
4.By thee late 1500s the Ottomans controlled one third of Europe.
5.The religion of the Ottomans was Islam.
Questions I still have about the Ottomans:
1.Why did they keep Suleymans death a secret
2.Why did they want to change the name from Constantinople to Istanbul?
3. How did Suleyman die?
Alex, Christian slave boys were called Janissaries
ReplyDeleteMeghan,
ReplyDeleteI also found it interesting that by the late 1500s they controlled one third of Europe
Five things i found interesting about ottomans were:
ReplyDelete1. Janissaries were people that would take young christian boy's and convert them to muslim and make them elite.
2. The ottoman religion was Islam.
3.Suleyman, one of the leaders of the ottoman empire died from an illness while during a battle trying to take over a hungarian stronghold.
4. The ottoman empire lasted 600 years.
5. Ottomans originated from central asia.
Questions i have:
1. What illness did Suleyman die from?
Julia,
ReplyDeletei also thought how it was interesting how long the ottoman empire lasted.
Alex,
ReplyDeleteI thought that it was pretty interesting how the different ways the ottomans tried to breach constantinople's walls.
five things i found interesting where:
ReplyDelete1. Topkapi palace was the richies palace in the world
2.Constantinople became Istanbul
3.the Turks allowed everyone to practice whatever religion they wanted as long as they paid taxes
4.Suleyman the Magnificent sparked a period similar to the renaissance in the Muslim world with new art and literature
5.the Janisaries got to use all types of new weapons mostly muskets and cannons.
Questions:
1.how did Suleyman make the palace so rich?
2.why where they so strickt on the janisaries?
Alex,
ReplyDeletei also found it interesting how The Ottoman empire's army had gun powdered guns and cannons against other armys that had only swords and arrows.
Julia,
ReplyDeletei also found it interesting how they forged Suleyman's signature for 48 days after he died
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ReplyDelete1. What I found interesting was that They would have Janissaries. (Christian Soldiers)
ReplyDelete2. The cannons used To take down the wall of Constantinople.
3. They controlled 1/3 of Europe.
4. Sullyman's Death was Kept a secret by his soldiers.
5. How they Got into Constantinople, They entered by a gate that was accidentally opened.
After they conquered Constantinople what did they do with the prisoners? Did they make them Join the army? Did they Kill Them? what happened to them?
John: I found it interesting when they converted christian boys to muslims.
ReplyDeleteAlex: I found it interesting how they let people be any religion if they pay taxes.
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