Compare And Contrast Ottoman Empires

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Beginning in the fourteenth century, Ottoman Empire presented not only ideally and intellectually an Other to Europe, but also a very physical one, in that the Empire's system of government, the social environment and the way of doing "things" were all different. Yapp signifies that Christians were better informed of Muslims rather than reverse, because Muslims had an aversion to "wicked" Western people, and to whom, they have decided to remain ignorant until the late eighteenth century1. One historical example of difference often discussed was that Ottoman society was in fact more open than what was perceived by Europeans, because Turkish culture was an integrated Islamic and Mediterranean culture, which had strong beliefs in religion