Compare And Contrast Ottoman Turkey And Ming Empires

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In the context of world history, it is interesting to compare Ottoman Turkey with the Ming dynasty which are two important emperors in the development of history.
Let us first look at Ottoman Turkey, in fact it was a small tribe in the West Turkic in AD 1281 when the Ottoman I served as tribal leader, continued to annex the Byzantine territory Karagia Hissar, Bilecik, Al Hissar and other places, settled the capital in Yenişehir Hill. In 1289 the Roma Sultan was forced to admit that he seized territory as its fief. Objectively, he seemed to be the real founder of the Ottoman countries. Ottoman Turkish demise in 1922, the Turkish National Government announced the abolition of Su Dan Muhammad VI, the abolition of Su-Dan system; the Ottoman Empire ended. Even from …show more content…

At the same time, all religious or sectarian groups are intermixed. The Turkish culture is a mixture of various ingredients which adopted the themes of art, the model of pure literature, and the political ideas that celebrated the king from the Persians. The Byzantines had provided them with military and political institutions; the Turks had also acquired science and religion from the Arabs. The Ottoman Empire contains Arabs, Berbers, Egyptians, Kurds, Armenians, Slavs, Greeks, Albanians and other ethnic groups. “Thus, the Ottomans established their legitimacy via military skill, religious backing, and a loyal bureaucracy. They artfully balanced the decentralizing tendencies of the outlying regions with the centralizing forces of the imperial capital.” (page 396, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart) The Turks in their own country is a minority group. In order to rule effectively within the territory of different races, different religious beliefs for that all areas of a harmonious and orderly exchanges, the Empire government used Millet system. While contributing to the rapid expansion of the multi-ethnic country, the