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Rise and Fall of the Ottomans

The Ottoman started off as a small Turkish state that absorbed other countries under Muhammed II`s rule from the breakdown of Seljuk Turks. The early stages of the Ottoman exspansion was ruled by Osman I, Orkhan, Murad I, Beyazid I. The victories of Kosovo fields,Nikopol, and the control over the Balkan pennisulla made them a big target as becoming a super power. When the Ottomans tried to over throw constantinople, Bayazid was defeated by Timur and the Muhammed I empire was exspanded victoriously under Murad I and Muhammed II and unfied the Ottoman empire back together. Afterwards Muhammed II captured constantinople changed there nation from nomadic to a thriving empire.

A little over 100 years ago in Europe and Asia there was 4 major powers,Russia, Germany, Ottoman, and Hapsburg. The ottomans fell off there peak around the 19th and then lost power around 1914 during the Great War A.K.A WWI because they were allies with Germany which lost the war when the British occupied Baghdad and Jeruslem. . Greed drove them into the war and they ended up being the "Architects of there down fall." They finally collapsed around 1922, the Ottoman Empire:1299-1922.

WWI

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