ITT: we discuss the greatest empire in history
ITT: we discuss the greatest empire in history
Carson Butler
Brayden Phillips
>this meme map again
Fuck you whiteboi the ottomans went as far as finland there is even a place called turku there because of them.
Gavin Campbell
William Clark
Stop posting that map. Croatia never fell.
Dylan Gomez
Croatia never completely fell*
A lot of its modern territory did
Nathan Murphy
>Greatest empire
>can't even industrialise
>loses its shit early 19th century
Yawn
Juan Roberts
This is more accurate.
Noah Diaz
Hey at least the Janissary warriors were based ethnic Tur....oh wait.
John Gonzalez
Tbh, the Ottoman Turks themselves were hardly ethnic Turkics.
Alexander Edwards
They basically bred out any Turk pretty early desu
Almost every single sultan for a while had a Greek or Slav mother
Samuel Hill
I'll start caring about the Ottomans when Turks start caring about the Armenians :^)
Isaiah Ross
>this bait map again
Isaiah Anderson
plenty of roach rape babies in Croatia, user
Thomas Turner
and Slovenia, roaches raped-it-up here as well.
Isaac Barnes
>loses its shit early 19th century
>in the war that raped everyone
it had a good run
Michael Allen
America is the greatest empire of all time.
Name one that has grown as much as ours in less than 300 years.
Bet you can’t
Evan Carter
>it had a good run
Of ruling places not worth ruling and doing things not worth the doing
Sebastian Lee
>Istanbul
>not worth ruling
bet Russians and Greeks would get mad of you saying that
Easton Ward
Nothing in that region is worth anything and you have not accomplished anything.
Evan Smith
We took what we wanted and everyone be damned. Manifest Destiny. Deal with it.
Luis Price
And now?
Joseph Cruz
Funnily enough Constantinople suddenly stopped being relevant in trade during the centuries after Mohammedan conquest because Christians decided to not trade as much through there and found the New World instead for their trade needs
Leo Stewart
An empire literally built on Orthocuck tears and butthurt
Wyatt Campbell
>Not calling it Byzantium
Thomas Nguyen
Mongolian Khanate.
Nicholas Rivera
>Istanbul
>Not Konstantinopolis
Faggot.
Jayden Williams
>Konstantinopolis
>Not Byzantium
Isaac Gonzalez
>any area any muslim at any time ever held any power in
>TURKMEN STRONK WE CONQUER ESPANIA BEFORE EVEN LEAVING ASIA
Asher Gonzalez
Excuse me, sweety
Hudson Ramirez
The sipahis were better even their european enemies understood that in the 16th crntury.
John Hughes
The tried finding new trade routes because the ottomans raped their ass with high tarrifs.
Gabriel Long
an empire for ants
Connor Murphy
XD
Thomas Jones
This map is so inaccurate why do you post it? Why? Are you stupid?
Nolan Murphy
I have no idea what that map is trying to represent
Julian Adams
Youre not an empire when youre controlled by outside forces for your entire existence Shlomo.
Jonathan Richardson
Some turkolian power fantasy it seems.