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-trade, agriculture, transportation, and religion made it up
-military expansion and careful use of currency were main source of wealth
-traded luxury goods (silk, furs, tobacco, and spices)
-imported good that they did not make themselves (woolen cloth, glassware, medicine, gunpowder and clocks)
-majority of the population earned their living from small family holdings

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-strong influence from customs and languages
-Mosque of Suleyman
-painters and poets looked to Persia and Arabia for models
-war games
-lots of cultural blending

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-much of eastern Europe was unified under the control of the Ottoman empire
-isolated countries from the capitalistic system of western Europe
-invaded Europe in 1389
encouraged Europe to embark on the age of discovery
-expanded into eastern Europe

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-Osman formed alliances
-Murad ll invaded hungary
-Mehmed ll helped rebuild cities
-Selim the Grim defeated safavids of Persia
-Suleyman lead them to control trade routes

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-islam, based on teachings of the prophet Muhammad
-believed god revealed these teachings to Muhammad through the angel Gabriel
-islam teaches the existence of only one god (Allah)
-believed in all prophets of Judaism and Christianity
-five pillars of islam (faith, prayer, almsgiving, fasting, and pilgrimage to mecca.

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-crucial part of european states system
-played a big role in Ottomans affairs
-the eastern question
-the crimean war
-germany reorganized the army and financial system