Abstract: The Ottoman Empire and the Japanese Empire met the Western threat in vastly different circumstances. In the Muslim world, the Ottoman Empire was one of the three new Islamic centers in the Age of Three Empires, the others being the Mughals in India and the Safavids centered on Persia. From the 1300s, Ottoman territory was at the very borders of Christian Europe, and, in the 1400s and 1500s, it was southeast Europe that faced an Ottoman threat. In 1453, the Ottoman capture of Constantinople had destroyed what remained of the Byzantine Empire and put a Muslim empire in its place. Through the 1500s, the Turks were militarily equal to almost any Western power, often superior. On the world scene, the Ottoman Empire was one of the emerging gunpowder empires.
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-03-13
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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