Western Civilization I / Unit 14 WC1 1313 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Ottomans to 1453: Osman to Mehmed II
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The idea
The Ottomans rose from post-Mongol Turkic kingdoms under Osman in the early fourteenth century, taking Byzantine Anatolia, then Greece and the Balkans. Mehmed II took Constantinople in fourteen fifty-three and made it his capital, the largest city in Europe by sixteen hundred.
In practice
The Ottomans as Rome's heirs.
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The most powerful state of the period, the anchor says. Attribute.
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