The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire

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  @HistoryScope · 4 years ago · pinned

  The audio engineer couldn&apos;t find good high quality recordings of many of the songs in this video. So they remade 13 of them and we uploaded them on our third channel, Music Scope, so you can listen to them yourselves as well: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkH3AD8-uCAJYW7Q9I0ZJig">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkH3AD8-uCAJYW7Q9I0ZJig</a>

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  @ondank · 4 years ago

  It honestly boggles my mind that the taxation on spices was SO steep that European countries decided that it made more sense to sail around a continent in voyages that took months, then to pay those taxes.

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  @Browncheeseboi · 4 years ago

  The Janissaries were circumcised, not castrated.

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  @nemanjaradic1055 · 4 years ago

  Ottoman conquests in Europe be like: I used the christians to destroy the christians

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  @thebestcentaur · 4 years ago

  &quot;What were they gonna do, sail around Africa?&quot;<br><br>Europe: <b>so anyway, I started sailing</b>

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  @saurovaki · 4 years ago (edited)

  I&apos;ve always been interested in the Ottoman Empire but I wasn&apos;t sure how to comprehend its history in a linear fashion so thanks so much for this video :)

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  @kmmmsyr9883 · 4 years ago

  Some errors:<br>- Ottoman Empire didn&apos;t exist for 700 years, it existed for 620 or 623 years (its founding date is disputed, either 1299 or 1302. also it&apos;s fall is 1922 by Ataturk abolishing monarchy in Turkey)<br>- Janissaries were not castrated. Only castrated people employed by Ottoman government were eunuchs in harems or people who rised to higher positions from being an eunuch. Close to being castrated, however, janissaries were forbidden from marrying until their retirement (until the reign of Selim the Grim). In fact, many people who rised to higher positions from being a janissary even married the sisters and daughters of the sultans and had children with them.

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  @warcrimeswilly · 4 years ago

  I would love to see a video like this on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, an important yet overlooked country. There seems to be no in depth video like this on the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and I think it would make a very interesting topic.

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  @ffarkasm · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7eLO2UwxDo&amp;t=381">6:21</a> The janissaries were circumcised, not castrated. Big difference. Just imagine if you were forced to chose from the two.

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  @TsvetanVelichkov1 · 4 years ago

  - And what are the Europeans gonna do? Sail around Africa? <br>- So anyway, the Europeans sailed around Africa.

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  @Rawkabg · 4 years ago

  The Empire&apos;s rise is impressive really, taking advantage of the weakened powers around them slowly getting larger and more powerful honestly it&apos;s intriguing history

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  @CONSTVNTINE · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7eLO2UwxDo&amp;t=381">6:21</a> Janissaries were not castrated. Just circumcised.

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