Let's have an ottoman thread.
What did the ottomans do wrong in their later half of existence and how could they have industrialized ?
Let's have an ottoman thread
Jaxon Moore
Jaxson Young
>What did the ottomans do wrong
They existed.
Elijah Rodriguez
Fuck off.
Carson Long
The fact they controlled Egypt for centuries and never dug the Suez Canal is mindbogglingly stupid.
>"they could have never known it would be useful..."
Bull-fucking-shit, the Venetians had plans to dig a Suez Canal in the 1500s (pre-Ottoman Egypt), and the Ottomans expressly forbade them from doing it, so they certainly knew about the concept.
Michael Jackson
The brits dug it to get to india faster why would the ottomans want to do that when they could just go over arabia?
Liam Jones
Stay mad, Mehmet.
Colton Anderson
>Ottoman thread
>post-turkposter era
it's just not the same
Gabriel Thomas
leave Veeky Forums fucking mountain turk, stop ruining every thread with your biji butthurt diaspora retardness...
Brayden Johnson
To charge the Bongs (and whomever else) huge amounts of money to use it.
>Portuguese find a path around Africa
>"Pft, nobody will ever use that." - Ottomans
>Spaniards prove that sailing to Asia is possible by crossing the Atlantic
>"Pft, nobody will ever use that." - Ottomans
>Various Europeans try to find a Northwest Passage to Asia
>"Pft, nobody will ever use that." - Ottomans
>Russians march across Siberia to access the Orient directly
>"Pft, nobody will actually use that." - Ottomans
Christian Diaz
Turks are not a people renowned for their towering intellect.