2) European art styles had a big influence on ottoman art.

3) They used European systems of law, military, and even dress.

4) European military experts hired by the school were asked to teach painting.

5) European influence also extended to literature

2) So much of what happened in Europe was a direct response to the presence of the Ottoman Empire on its borders

3)Ottoman music influenced Western musicians, such as Mozart and Beethoven, adding an exotic color to some of their compositions.

4) The name comes from a Turkish word meaning turban. The tulips that are still all the rage in the Netherlands and elsewhere originally came from Turkey.

5) The Ottomans were leaders in cartography and the europeans tried their best to match them.

2)The empirical analysis suggests that empires increased trade by lowering transactions costs and by establishing trade policies that promoted trade within empires
3)As the Ottoman Empire expanded, it started gaining control of important trade routes. 

4)Europeans could trade through Constantinople and other Muslim countries, they had to pay high taxes.
5)The empire did not take an active interest in sea trade preferring a free-market system from which they could draw a tax revenue.

2) The ottoman sultan served as the empires sole ruler

3) The state had control over the CLergy

4) ON eleven occasions the sultan was replaced by another sultan of the ottoman dynasty because he was perceived by his enemies as a threat to the state

5) There were only two attempts in ottoman history to unseat the ruling ottoman dynasty, both failures.

2) Non Muslim communities had a limited amount of power to regulate their own affairs

3) Non Muslims in part of the empire had to hand over some of their children as a tax under devshirme.

4) These children were converted to Islam and served as slaves. 

5) AFter battles between Muslim and Christians , churches were converted into mosques and mosques into churches

2) Education was largely divided on ethnic and religious lines

3) Dancing was an important element of Ottoman culture, which incorporated the folkloric dancing traditions of many different countries and lands on three continents

4)The meddah or story teller played in front of a small group of viewers, such as a coffeehouse audience

5) The Jewish Gymnastics Club of Constantinople, founded in 1895, was the first of Istanbul’s sports clubs