>all the sultans had European mothers and European wives, just look at their genealogy >the sultans after Bayzeid we’re genetically European and closer to Northern Europeans than to arabs or anatollians >the Empire besides being ruled by a European had other Europeans ruling regions, look at all the viziers and governors - all European in origin
So why isn’t this empire considered a European colonial empire? European rulers, ruled over some Europeans (balkans) and non Europeans but the rulers were still Europeans.
>all European in origin Not all of them. About half of them were Turkish. The European ones were taken from their families and were given to Turkish families and grew up Turkish
Anthony Barnes
their culture is Asian and their religion is Arab.
Noah Brown
Because its an empire of non whites
Parker Carter
Asia Minor has never been considered Europe. Since the fucking Hittites and Assyrians. Only Zhang from Vancouver, Khan the Turkish nationalist who wants Gibson, and EU Commissioners paid by George Soros to "diversify" Europe.
Oliver Allen
>The European ones were taken from their families Why did they take them?
Luis Davis
The rulers were white, the owner European territory. Ipso facto a European Empire.
Look at the genealogy, they were Europeans. There was no such thing as “Turkish” before 1920 ad.
Owen Turner
They wanted whiter children the Turks as they envied the looks of whites
Austin Turner
>The rulers were white, the owner European territory. Ipso facto a European Empire. 1 drop rule
Josiah Garcia
The owned the balkans, the cradle of European civilization. The sultans were Europeans genetically (mothers and wives), and the governors were all Balkan Europeans. Ergo European Empire.
Ryan Hall
because it was so nonwhite that it even made several previously white groups less white, such as the Serbs, whose culture is today almost wholly Ottoman Turkish despite their being Slavic and christian.
taking slaves to man the army was a common muslim practice. Devsirme system consisted of basically kidnapping young boys from their family in the balkans, taking them to Turkey and giving them a muslim upbringing. most of these boys became highly disciplined soldiers who feared nothing and thus the Jannissary corp came to be. come to think of it it was a smart way of keeping your subjects short on able bodied men and feed your huge army, albeit completely immoral. but then again islam has always been an immoral religion.
Anthony Price
islam
Levi Gutierrez
So? Christianity is a middle eastern religion as well.
Blake Powell
>There was no such thing as “Turkish” before 1920 ad. There was. They called themselves either Turk or Ottoman. They knew their origins came from Central Asia. Ottoman Empire was called Turkey or Turkish Empire in Europe
Brody Mitchell
apologise for Devsirme, Timur.
Jaxson Perez
Same way most people in the Roman Empire called themselves Roman despite having no origins in central Italy.
Colton Jones
Wish we were yurabian.
Fuck being in the slave-o-sphere
Joshua Green
>taking slaves to man the army was a common muslim practice.
i bet you are german amerikan too. prussian as fuck. :DDD
Oliver Clark
The Roman army only "employed" slaves as galley slaves.
It was actually a big point that you were supposed to be a free citizen to be part of the Roman army...
Charles Nelson
Otto was not Christo
>their culture is Asian and their religion is Arab.
Otto was the continuation of the byzantine especially before 1453. Also one of the titles of the Ottoman sultans was caesar. in turkish Kayzer, Kayzer-i Rum.
Thank goodness that fuckfest didnt last till today.
Allah bless the germanic barbarians for burning down r*me
James Lewis
Because it was Greek you cunt
Logan Foster
Yeah turk nigga But it became the backbone of Europe by merging with pagan culture and philosophy Islam in Europe is just Muslims who moved to Europe and like Albanians and Bosnians whom the Turks raped the culture out of
Alexander Garcia
That's like the dumbest shit I've read today
Connor Price
Oh boy, it's another episode of we ruled the empire and were oppressed by it at the same time. starring; ex-slaves and eur*cucks.
