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Osmen Osman, the founder of the Ottoman empire, with help from his "ghazi" waged holy war on the Byzantin Empire. They began to conquer cities one by one and expand their empire
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Osman, the founder of the Ottoman empire, anhis follwers defeat the Byzantine empire at the city of Bursa and seiz it.
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The Ottomans captured the fortress of Gallipoli while aiding a claimant to the Byzantine throne.
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fall of constantinople
The Byzantine Empire comes ot an end when their capitol city of Constantinople is conquered by Mehmed II, this opened the door for Ottoman expansion -
Ismail, a 12 year old boy left eh swamp where he had hidden from his enemys. two years later in 1501 he claims himself "shah".
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A critical battle where the Ottomans deployed heavy artillery and thousands of Janissaries who had firearms behind a barrier of carts.Since the Safavids didnt believe in the use of firearms they suffered a terible lose
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Also know as Babur, he sought to transform his inheritance into a glorious Asian Empire
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The reign of Shah Ismail, the founder of the Safavid Empire, comes to an end.
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Babur mounted invasions in 1523 and 1524 and ended up siezing Delhi in 1526
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the grandson of Babur
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Akbar he created a centralized administrative structure with ministries to regulate parts of the empire. He slowly began to expand the Mughal Empire by first absording parts of the crumbleing Vijayanagar kingdom.
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The man who is full responsible for revitalizign the Safavid Empire and greatly expanding Safavid rule is born.
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Shah Abbas dies after he succesfulyy restores and expanded the Safaivd Empire
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Shah Jahan began the construction of the Taj Mahal as a tomb for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, after she had passed away
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Taj Mahal Tour
The construction on the Taj Mahal is complete -
under hsi reign the Mughal empire reached its hieght. He expanded its power, but caused hostily amoung different religous groups within the empire
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The Ottoman Empire becomes involved in a series of wars that would umtimalety prove how backwards teh Ottoman military forces had become.
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After World War I, the empire comes to an end.
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On October 29 1923 Turkey emerged as an independent nation, where the Ottoman Emipre used to rule.
