1. Ms. Susan M. Pojer
Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua,
NY

2. Osman I (Othman): 1299-
1326

3. The Golden Age of the
Ottomans

4. Tamerlane (1336-1405)
or “Timur, the Lame”

5. Mehmet I: 1413-1421

6. The Ottoman Bureaucracy
SULTAN
Divans
Heads of
Social / Military
Individual
Divans
Religious Millets
Local Administrators Muslims Jews
& Military
Landowners / Christians
Tax Collectors

7. Mehmet II: 1444-1445;
1451-1481
(“The Conqueror”)

8. The Ottoman Capital --
Constantinople

9. “Golden Horn” – 15c
map

10. “Golden Horn” from
space

11. “Golden Horn”

12. Sunset on the “Golden
Horn”

13. The Fall of Constantinople:
1453

14. Europeans vs. Turks

15. The End of the Byzantine
Empire

16. Hagia Sophia

17. Hagia Sophia -
interior

18. Siege of Constantinople, 1453

19. Selim I, ”the Grim”: 1512-
1520

20. Faith Mosque

21. Suleiman the Magnificent:
(1520-1566)
Suleiman’s Signature

22. Qur’an Page:
Arabic Calligraphy

23. Calligraphy

24. Blue Mosque

25. Blue Mosque -
interior

26. Prayer Rug,
16c Ottoman Empire

27. Illuminated Qur’an Page

28. Illuminated Qur’an Page

29. Qur’an Page:
Abraham’s Sacrifice of
Isaac

30. Qur’an Page: The Angel Gabriel
Visits Muhammad

31. Collection of Taxes in
Suleiman’s Court

32. Conversations Between
Muslims & Christians

33. Scholars at the Galata Observatory
(Suleiman’s Constantinople), 1557

34. Janissaries

35. Battle of Lepanto (1571)

36. Battle of Lepanto (1571)

37. The Ottoman Empire During the
16c