What Ended the Ottomans? | The Fall of the Ottoman Empire 

when the Portuguese reached the Persian Gulf from the other side and even threatened them in the Red Sea, the Ottoman trade model had basically gone worthless within a single moment. As a side effect also the trade model of Venice and Genoa had become worthless. The Portuguese managed to reroute the whole trade with India, Indochina, China and East Africa towards the Cape of Good Hope and further to Lisbon. By that they also killed the silk road and the whole Islamic world, from North Africa to Central Asia drifted into economic decline and later total economic insignificance. With coffee and sugar cane planted in the Caribbean and Brazil even that trade was lost for the Islamic world. Later cotton from the Americas did the rest.

@@ekesandras1481 this ^^^^^^

Hardly. The Ottomans continued to be the European Hegemon all the way up to the 18th Century. The Europeans discovered ways around the Ottomans as early as 1488, while the Ottomans didn't hit their stride until the 1600s.

@@Killzoneguy117 it did help to their downfall tho

This isn’t true

Absolutely, across the Balkans and the Arab world in particular.

id rather be at war for 2000 years than be under the ottomans for one year. ALLAH W LEBNEN🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧

@@tonikeirouz7347 Ok

@@tonikeirouz7347 don't you know the bad ottoman came later?.

@@bosbanon3452 i do. ottomans were cool until the young turks came to power. today most turks are fascists who follow kemalism or are neo-imperialists who follow enver pasha’s genocidal ideals

He needs to find a big RU-vidr who is willing to collaborate.

Definitely no plans on giving up here!

No he doesn’t dude, he sucks. His information is weak and misleading, along with constantly painting half pictures with the ideas he’s attempting to convey.

@@NoNo-oi7zj yeah dude I was wrong, unsubscribed few weeks after this comment.

How do you find these observations? This is some history I'm not as informed on and the main page suggested so I clicked it and will watch some other stuff, maybe read if I can find a particular book, but I appreciate seeing these comments if only to remind myself that many sources are needed, to really understand.

Glad you think so!

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Thanks, I'm glad you keep coming back!

@@LookBackHistory yeah no problem, I like your channel

Seems like massive Turkish cope to me

@@anon2427 it literally is lol

It's not a dumb question as they're quite tricky to do. However, you're going to have to figure it out for yourself.

Is it on the maps for mappers website

nope, united arab league is the only way forward, multiculturalism is trash just like equality.

They did. Ottomans forced islam and their rule onto many. After all do you think the balkans was part of the ottomans by choice? LOL dont make me laugh. Ottomans went around the world converting and genociding. Why do you think albania and Bosnia are muslim? By choice? LOL

Believing that that building was the Hagia Sophia is intellectually lazy.

It wasn’t that mate tho was it

I never realized this, thanks for the info

He is the sultan who lost most territory in Ottoman history.

@@invalidnoun4746 “Drang nach Osten'in nihai başarısızlığının nedenlerini ararken, Temmuz 1908'deki Jön Türk devriminin stratejik çöküşünü gözden kaçırmamalıyız. Ortaya çıkan siyasi kargaşa ve Sultan Abdülhamid'in otoritesinin zayıflaması Almanlara iki yıla mal oldu. Bağdat demiryolu - ve İtalyan ve Balkan savaşlarını devrimden doğan Osmanlı zayıflığının meyvesi olarak görürsek, muhtemelen beş. Daha da zarar verici olanı, Jön Türklerin Abdülhamid'in Nisan 1909'da zorla tahttan indirilmesiyle açılan ve Arap isyanında Şerif Hüseyin tarafından bu kadar vahim bir şekilde ifşa edilen İslam dünyasındaki uçurumdu - Hicaz demiryolunun Mekke'ye kadar uzatılması düşünülemezdi. Padişahın tahttan indirilmesi olmasaydı kesinlikle olurdu. İyi ya da kötü, Abdülhamid'in düşüşü Türkiye'yi, Bağdat demiryolunu ve Sünni Müslüman dayanışmasını Kaiser-Oppenheim kutsal savaşının ayaklarını kesmeye yetecek kadar zayıflattı." Alıntı Berlin-Bağdat Ekspresi: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ve Almanya'nın Dünya Gücü Hedefi Sean McMeekin

He sold territory and licked british boots in order to not get into the war

@@Baysal_Alisan “he sold territory” he lost the arm to save the body. How about your profile picture where he lost the Libyan war, the Balkan wars and World War One… then decides it’s time to flee and leave whatever’s left of the empire in flames 👏🤣 he tarnished the term Turk and still to this day turkey hasn’t recovered from his stupid inexperienced decisions. Complains about Abdulhamid who at the very least kept the state going and improving whereas Enver pasha , no he’s good for losing a whole empire within a decade

Nah I personally see the government at fault. It’s was a mess which led to foreign powers taking advantage and it then just crumbles down

​@@ChezzyDRMlolThe incompetence of the Ottoman central government was definitely a factor

He actually depicted territories that were in control of the Ottomans in 1918 and in the more than just Hatay is in red

They ''were'' Calips and did not just claim it, Ottoman Empire was the last great age for Islam, Calpihate is not something that passes through ceremonies, a caliph is a person charged with being the imam of the Muslims and the guardian of the Shari'a and Sultans of the Ottoman Empire was exactly that, to be honest there wasn't even a closer nation to claim the title.

​@@youravaragetoxicmasculinem9508 They were not in any way representatives of the true faith, they were SUFIS, they didn't even do Hajj. they ruined the Islamic world and lead to its demise and fall into corruption, diseases, and the disappearance of knowledge. They didn't call themselves Caliphs, they called themselves sultans, except for two cunts, one Selim the horrible who invaded Egypt and the levant and his armies burnt down libraries, and committed massacres similar to that the Mongols did in Baghdad, and the second one was Abdulhamid the second when he was facing Russia, trying to provoke the Muslims within Russian lands to join him. If that title was easily claimed, why didn't every single Muslim sultan/king claim to be caliph of their own respective group??? MAMLUKS who were the protectors of the Abbasid Caliphate and hosted the Caliph in Cairo after the fall of Baghdad, never ever claimed that title nor even tried to take it from the Abbasid Caliph, heck they even tried to reestablish the Abbasid Caliphate again in Baghdad. The Ottomans are the one and only reason the Muslim world is no longer in its former glory, and they are the main and the only reason why the title of Caliph is no longer that important, because they destroyed it with their brutal invasion of the levant and then Egypt. Now look at the descendants of the ottomans, allying themselves with Israel, are members of the NATO, and helped destroy Syria, Iraq and Libya. they even tried to ruin Egypt AGAIN. Never have I ever witnessed a nation so arrogant and so full of itself such as the ottomans, and they were and are still very racist and envious of the Arabs specifically.

Maybe it didn't deserve to fall, they were literally the Muslim version of Rome for some period of time before they got incomponent and became oppressive. It explains why the Orthodoxs backed Ottomans during the Ottoman Civil War and never attempted to revolt.

@@guywithacreativename5134I agree Ottomans were actually starting to intergrate the rest of the empire if it was successful with a strong government we could see a united empire in the Middle East

You're not the first person to comment this, and you're not the first person to be wrong.

@@LookBackHistory you are correct my sincere apologies.

Nope.

It was Justinian of the Christian Eastern Roman empire in the 6th century who built it

What building was that in the beginning when you mentioned the marvelous things they built?

That's the Blue Mosque bro.

Thank you

Let’s not blame Islam here as many gulf countries are Muslim also but don’t lack like the ottomans did, the ottomans were backwards and hypocrites they were Muslim but confused ones it was their own polices which brought them down not Islam

@@marshallsilverstar9636 the balkans started ww1 3 balkand war greece in hell of alot in debt egypt population and population density

@@marshallsilverstar9636 algeria tunis tripolie iraq syria

@@marshallsilverstar9636 when the ottomens held the middle east it was calm no terrorism and extremists and for that time that standard of living was good a few hundrad years ago it was acceptable for you not to bath Yoy cant compare that time to now in morals and living standards laws etc

@@marshallsilverstar9636 ye

@@marshallsilverstar9636 i will argue with you tomorrow i am going to sleep

I don't know much about WW2-era Turkey, but given the destruction that was endemic across the rest of Europe at the time, you're probably right.

@@LookBackHistory Mustafa Kemal Atatürk actually noticed the war aproaching in his deathbed and with his words from before ( war if not needed is genocide ) Turkey stayed away

@@iron-non to be fair it wasn’t difficult to see another war was coming

Greek wet dreams, the greeks got their independence in 1821, and the Ottoman empire continued to exist until 1918, you guys ended nothing lmao

@@mertroll1 you shrank and we expanded….we control 2000 islands and the entire Aegean Sea is a Greek lake. We liberated Thessaloniki and Kavala, and soon Imvros and Tenedos, you are encircled by Greece, we control the entrance to the Dardanelles. You are a weak autocratic Arab statelet ..no wonder they call you turkeys 🦃

@@mertroll1 well their Independence was the beginning of the End. It showed that the Empire wasn’t strong enough anymore, and the Europeans realized that they could use it as they like, by Using the National Problems in the Empire

@@shaq6976 The beginning of their end was the Russo-Turkish war. And that wasn't even the beginning of the beginning.

From war wise, it was Russian and British empires. From economical reasons, Ottoman did not colonize and collect resources from vassal states. Other empires gained sucking Africa and Asia since Ottoman did not do it.

It was 50/50 some were stupid and some weren’t. And the stuff the stupid ones did caused the end. Military wise they were smart

It’s dead forever

It was abolished by Ataturk, islamophobia followed afterwards.

@@turkishemir5735 Turkey suffers from christianophobia

Best at what exactly?

It commited a genocide against armanians

Wait why did they kill the assyrians even though they were muslims Did they kill everyone who wasn't Turkish

@@lucyadam9128 No, they killed every Christian ethnicity, after all Christians were seen as disloyal as they were second class citizens, and wouldn’t be loyal to the Caliph. Also, many Assyrians are Christians.

@@AG-vb6vv no actually they killed everyone who wasn't Turkish they also killed Arab muslims especially after the Arabs rebelling against them so it was more of an ethnic genocide Also it wasn't the sultan and caliph who did it , it was the young Turks nationalist You watched the video right, the caliph was just a puppet for the secret society at that point So the ottomans were just used as a scape goat by the Turkish nationalist to escape from responsibility

@@lucyadam9128 No, they didn’t kill Arab Muslims, have you not read on the Armenian Genocide. Back then, they were trying to build an Ottoman identity - amongst the Muslims of the empire. It’s only when that failed, did Turkish become their focus. They only killed/genocides those considered disloyal to the empire ie the kaffir, Christians, no Muslims were deported to the desert to die.

@@AG-vb6vv no they also killed Arab, I know it might sound surprising to you but Turks world rather die than be called arabs They killed Armenian Greek and Syrian but mostly Armenians

The word ottoman came from the name osman. They called themselves the ottomans. Only sultan (unless you can prove me wrong) who called himself Caesar was sultan mehmed II

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@@Younghype- Osman is actually islamized version of otaman/ataman also

They didn't call themselves Rome, nor did they call themselves Ottomans, but called themselves Devlet-i Aliyye, "That Most Grand State"; sometimes called as "That Most Grand State of Osman". The Emperors (Padishahs, meaning Shah of all), held many titles among them was Kayser-i Rum. Caesar of Rome. However, this is as a tradition from the Medieval Eras, of conquering Emperors and rulers, not just Ottomans, but everyone back then, collecting the titles. Thus, after the conquest of Constantinople, Mehmed II "Fatih" took on the name of Kayser-i-Rum, in that tradition. But Ottoman sultans had many other titles they held simultaneously - Sultan (denoting both "de facto" {although with a war with Karaman} inherited Seljuk crown and the later added by conquest Ayyubid crown of Baghdad and "Sham" (Levant)), Shah of All (Padishah), King of all Vojvode, Shah of Shahs, Caliph of Muslims, and oldest of the titles they held and often put at the end of their entire nomer, Khan. TLDR: Yesn't

@@HierophanticRose when ibn batuta a Moroccan traveler visited the empire he described it as home of the rum So yeah

The ottomans absolutely were imperialist. I’m not even sure how you could make that claim.

1. The Death of Suleiman left the empire out of its golden age of culture. 2. Holy League's coalition against the Ottoman navy left them weakened. Not necessarily weak, just stagnated progress post--Golden age. The Ottomans did briefly manage to hold onto their lands, but: 3. Ottoman empire was diverse, and contained many peoples that were conquered and didn't want to be, so: 4. The Ottoman Empire gave diverse in ethnic or religious region some autonomy. This was good, however made the Empire decentralised and with some regions having too much unique power, it was hard to govern. 5-6. Many Ottoman leaders also had the tendency to seize a lot of power for themselves. As you said, the empire was built on tax revenue, so if it reached a natural border, desert, or foreign power, ability to extend, specifically into places that tax revenue can be gained began to be limited. 7. After 1768-74 Russo-Turkish war, huge consequences were met, and the Ottomans, who were having trouble balancing already, were pushed off of the limit. Post--loss of Crimea and Greece, it was clear Ottomans were losing might against Europeans. Eastern Question!

That's not the Hagia Sophia.

The shown building is the Blue mosque. If you watched closely instead of talking Bs then you might notice something

That was the good choice. Imagine if they had knocked down the Church. Instead of destroying history, beauty, religion and culture, they repurposed it. The one good thing they did.

It's the Blue Mosque. Occidental dunning-krugerism at its finest.