ITT: We post Ottoman accomplishments

ITT: We post Ottoman accomplishments

>annoy Europeans with their existence so they began looking for new routes to India

The biggest Ottoman accomplishment:

>Turning some of the wealthiest, most developed regions in the world into literal third-world backwaters.

Destroying old Roman roads by having herding animals graze the farmland next to them into nothing, and then the farmers abandon the land and the fruit trees next to the roads they had as their incentive to maintain them.

tbf the Euros quarried their Roman roads for stone.

>defeated half of albania after trying for 20 years and only after their god-leader died

They kept the eternal Serb in line

I know this is a trolling thread that is meant to shit on the Ottomans, but one of the greatest accomplishments of the Ottoman Empire, is that they ruled the Middle East peacefully for 600 years. The Middle East was in an objectively better state under Ottoman rule, than it is today.

Taking 300 years to realize that the printing press was a good idea.

Shh you can't say any nice things about turks on this board, you'll trigger the edgy /pol/fags.

>100+ years since ottomans left
>it's their damn fault i'm living on EUbux, now give some more cuz turks did this to me

then why don't you hear ME people nostalgic for the ottomans?
I mean, E. Euros admit the austro-hungarians were dicks, but they were civilised and brought higher standards of living.

Levantines are always nostalgic of ottomans, just because they don't go on Veeky Forums doesn't make it false
Saudis are the ones who probably don't see it as good because lot of bad blood between them

>rule peacefully for 600 years
>at war with the Safavids for over 200+ years

Yeah its not hard to do that when you steal the firstborn men of your best and brightest subjects and raise them as slaves with fanatical loyalty only to you, the ruler.

as opposed to them being fishers and farmers all their lives ottomans took them and made great viziers, statesmen out of them. fucking barbarians

>kidnapping and indoctrinating conscription is ok, because the pay is good and they get dental insurance;
Besides, we are talking about middle easterners here, not the western subjects.

>steal another people's clay
>destroy their ancient society
>name yourself after them
>steal their children
>steal their culture
>HURR better to take as slave than leave as the broken race we made them

>how dare they destroy their enemies!

>On the other hand, as the devshirme were recruited to rise up to the grand vizier status (the second most powerful man in the empire), Christian parents in Bosnia were known to bribe scouts to take their children

you're the one who brought it up in the first place

Not even a balkanfag, but the bosniac example was an offhand remark some chick wrote in a book, that she heard happen once.
There is no other evidence.
But turks cling to it like it's the holy grail to prove their stupid theory that everyone wanted to be a jannisary, but somehow no one remembers how excited they were about it.

And the example is not even "yo, bosniac parents in general once bribed the turks to get their kids high in life" it's literally "a bosniac parent once did this, which was remarkable"

hey, it's from wikipedia
that's where you get facts that turks are monsters right?

He's right, this did happen. Italian historian Alessandro Barbero mentions it in his book about Lepanto, referencing Navagero 1553, pg. 48-53 and Trevisan 1554, pg. 128

in retrospect, forcing the europeans to find new trade routes to india was one of the worst mistakes the ottomans ever made

if they had accommodated trade through their territory properly and taxed things reasonably they would have still profited of the trade while not incentivize the europeans to start looking beyond europe

however what they instead did was give europe the catalyst they needed to gain control over a large portion of the world and shift trade routes away from their territory entirely causing significant decline in the ottoman empire

good fucking coffee

>shhhh
Oh fuck off back to r*ddit you fucking spastic.

Not much to be said. It's actually kind of impressive how little an impact such a powerful empire had desu.

Because the Ottoman empire makes any nationalist from the middle east butthurt

Or more likely the Turks just sucked as leaders, that's sort of why the Arabs revolted.

desu the Arab revolt would've been crushed if they hadn't lost WW1.
And the Arab revolt isn't really a good way to judge Ottoman rule, since it was like 300 years after the Ottomans conquered their lands

Would it? The Turks couldn't do much about the Egyptian revolt. They were forced to make it de facto independent.
Ottomans were well over the hill by that point.

Yeah but the Arab revolt was literally just a few assmad arab tribes, nowhere near as dangerous as Egypt

Which made the problems only worse in the long run, meaning the middle east has no strong institutions on its own or even solid identities