The Ottomans and Constantinople

warrior for islam

Ghazi

most successful warrior and "founder" of Ottomans - people called him Othman - named after him

Osman

Military and political leader with absolute authority over a Muslim country

sultan

Permanently injured by an arrow in the leg - burned the city of Baghdad

timur the lame

Captured Constantinople in 1453 - named the city Istanbul - opened the city to new religions and backgrounds

Mehmed the 2nd

brought the empire to its height - superb military leader - became the most powerful monarch on earth

Suleyman the lawgiver

Ottoman policy of taking boys from Christian peoples to be trained as Muslim soldiers

Devshirme

Christian boys taken from families, converted to Islam, and then rigorously trained to serve the sultan

Janissaries

which son of Suleyman started the decline of the ottoman empire?

Selim the 2nd

called themselves romans and controlled constantinople until it was taken over by the ottomans in 1453

the byzantines