Social Sciences and History / Unit 6 SSH 0504 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Ottoman Millet System and Suleiman's Law
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The idea
Suleiman the First, the Magnificent to the West and the lawgiver at home, gave the empire one legal code and its height. Under the millet system each religious community ran its own affairs; Turkish served government, Arabic religion, Persian literature.
In practice
Decline after Lepanto, fifteen seventy-one; Russia rising in the Black Sea.
Where people slip
The devshirme took Christian boys for the sultan.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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