Ottoman Empire
Pre- world War I
Political
- The Ottomans conqured Balkans in eastern europe
- They also added areas of the Byzantine empire
- Their first king was Osman I
- In 1453 under the rule of Sultan Mahamad II, they captured the Byzantine capital, Constantinople
- This marked the end of the Byzantine empire
Social
- The rulers at this point in time were of the Muslim religion
- The people they ruled over were not
- Most of the Ottoman people were Christian or Jewish
- The people of the Ottomen empire were free to practice their own religion even though they were under the rule of muslims
- Each religion in the Ottoman empire lived in their own communities but would work and trade alongside eachother
- The Ottomans ruled over Greece, Suburbia, and Bosnia
- They had a closed agricultural economy
- This shows riginal distinctions whithin the empire
Important People
- Abdulhamd II- harsh ruler 1876 absolute monarchy
- Sultan Mahamad II- captured Byzantine Empire
- Osman I- first ruler
- Selim I- reached high point in 1500
Vocabulary words
Supremacy- Supreme power or athority
Sector- a district or region into whichand area is divided
World War I
Political
- The Ottoman empire joined centeral powers to form the tripple alliance with the signing of Turco- german allance
- Entered the war on october 28, 1914
- They choose to join with Germany because of a secret only 5 people knew about
- The treaty was signed August 2, 1914
- They thought it could save the Ottoman empire
Social
- Ottomans were forced to move
- 25% casualties
- 5 million out of 21million gone
- 771,844 were military casualties ( killed in action)
Category Totals[4]
Total number of conscripts and officers mobilized 2,873,000
Killed in action 243,598
Missing in action 61,487
Perished from diseases and epidemics 466,759
Dead: Killed in action and other causes 771,844
Seriously wounded (permanent loss) 303,150
Total wounded in action 763,753
Prisoners of War (combined from all theaters of war) 145,104
Absent without leave 500,000
Economic
- The economy at this time was mostly Agrarian
- The ottomans were not as economicaly stable as the countries from western and central europe
- The 19th centry had been a period of reforms
- Their economy had been a period of rapid integration into the world
Enver Pasha- Turkish minister of war( one of the 5 that knew of the secret treaty with germany)