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-they exported luxurious goods like silk, furs, tobacco, and spices
- had a growing trade in cotton
- imported woolen cloth, glass ware, medicine, and weapons.
-as ottomans empire grew they started gaining control of trade routes

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-  in the early 14th century sports mostly involved war games
-later on football clubs were established
- old turkic people were more interested in sporting fields like horse riding, archery, shooting, Javelin riding and wrestling.
- religion forbids any images of humans or animals
- spectacular art was created during Sultan's time

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- Mahmad was a european leader that adopted Ottoman ceremonials
- Ottomans gained control of most of the land routes to Europe
- much of Europe was unified under their control
- they were the biggest threat to Europe before the Battle of Vienna
- Ottoman empire isolated the southeastern countries in Europe from the capitalistic system of western Europe

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- Suleiman conquered lots of land
- he captured the island of Rhodes and Tripolis
-selim the grim defeated the safavids
- he swept through Syria and Palestine
- centralized government

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- They're religion was Islamic
- Caliphate was the highest point of islam
- caliphate was claimed by sultan.
- the empire was dominated by turks
- other than islamic, it contained Christians, Jew, and other religious minorities

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- the europeans weakened the Ottomans strength that they had.
- Russia established major power and influence over the empire
- the crimean war was part of the long running
- greek war of independence included European powers against ottomans