Ottomans and Mughals

Reasons for Rise to Power Reasons for Rise to Power

● Three factors ● Repeated military campaigns (large, effective, military)
○ Great leadership Osman (from which the name Ottoman ● Thriving trading economy of cotton
comes) ● Organized and centralized government. Emperor was the head
○ Control of a strategic link between Europe and Asia of the government and each region of the empire was
○ A new and efficient military individually ruled over.

Famous Leaders
● Osman
○ Founded the Ottoman Empire Famous Leaders
● Mehmed I ● Babur
○ Reunified the sultanate after Civil War ○ Conquered Sultan in Delhi
● Mehmed II ● Akbar
○ Captured Constantinople and led to its fall ○ Conquered southern tip of India
● Selim ○ Started granting mansabs to military officers
○ Conquered the Mamluk Sultanate and added Egypt and Syria
to Empire
● Suleiman
○ Reign is recognized as the “golden age”
Reasons for Decline of Power:
○ Expanded Empire into Belgrade and Vienna ● Land Grant System
● New Mughal territories ineffectively integrated into imperial
structure
Reasons for Decline of Power:
● The Devshirme came to an end
● The Sultan became reclusive Interesting Fact
● Military power became weak and corrupt ● The most used language that was used at the time was Persian
and eventually a new language was created called Urdu, which
Interesting Fact was similar.
● The Ottoman’s mad a method to their military planning that they the
Roman way of planning, because it corresponded more with the
Roman military than feudalism. Religion
● They were also Sunni Islam even though they ruled a
Religion predominantly Hindu area.
● They are Sunni Islam but they are tolerant to Christians and Jews