The Ottoman Empire

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Ottoman Society

The Ottoman Empire has many different and very complex components to their society. Some of these components to the society were the Palace, religious establishment, the military governance, and the bureaucracy. The person who usually oversees all of these components and helps them run efficiently is the sultan of the empire. Through the Sultan’s leadership, and the combination of these components helped towards the growth and maintenance of the Ottoman society.
First off, the Sultan had many people in the palace to take care of his matters and to help him. He has the Grand Vizir, who was basically his right hand man and they have pretty great trust between each other. He also has dizan, a counsel of head officials who help run all the other groups. They usually consist of the head of janissaries, chief judges, treasurers, secretary and admiral of the navy. They come together for meetings with the Sultan for directions, and giving the Sultan updates. For awhile, as generations went by both the Sultan and Grand Vizir were grown up and succeeding together and this contributed to building the trust between them. This had a good impact on the Ottoman Empire due to their continuation, they both know each other pretty well and the Sultan did not have to worry about the Grand Vizir giving him bad advice or even turning on him. Each of the successors to the throne had pretty good training before they became the Sultan. Suleyman I, the son of Selim I, had 6 years experience as a governor. He was governor of Bolu, Kaffa, Istanbul and Manissa. It was good for the empire that the next person in line did what to do and a little bit of how an empire is supposed to be run ruling and so they wouldn’t put the empire at risk but...

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...ype for all. There weren’t any different education for different states or the states didn’t have some laws that others did not. Any student could study very hard and make it to the top of the ranks even if they were poor so poverty was not an issue. There was even a system for the non-muslim people of the empire called the millet. They had the right to practice their own religion, keep their languages and develop their own institutions and all they had to do was pay an extra poll tax to the Sultan. They were also considered to be less than a Sunni Muslim in the Muslim states. Even though they were outsiders, the empire had a good system for the non Muslim and foreigners to work with. The empire could get some extra funding from them and they could establish their own languages and practice their own religion, they weren’t forced to do anything or become Muslims.

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