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Ottomans take over city of Nicaea from Anatolian (1301)
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Osmans takes Constantinople
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Turkish fleet defeated by Holy league in Battle of Lepanto
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Imperial forces rescue Vienna from invasion attemps
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• Ahmed the Third began his rule in 1703• Europeans dress became popular along with the ornaments• They called it the tulip era• During the tulip era wealthy Turks were influenced by European customs
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In 1720 the Safavid dynasty toppled. Persia then entered a long period of unrest. It toppled because the Ulma grew more powerful than the Shahs
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• Traditionalists forced Ottoman leaders to shut down the printing press in 1742• This spread throughout the entire empire• This slowed down the empire
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• In 1908 they restored the Constitution• This brought back Islamic laws and customs• Turks tried to free themselves from the Ottoman Empire• The Ottoman Empire then started to collapse after they separated