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Essay Introduction

Omar El Gendy

World History I

Influence of Trading On the Ottoman Empire

            The Ottoman Empire was once one of the most powerful empires on earth. The Ottoman Empire consisted of many territories in Asia, Africa and even Europe. Trading was essential to the Ottomans. Every country has a limited amount of resources and minerals, some countries lack resources other countries or empires may have. The Ottomans traded goods with France and later on England. Istanbul was the perfect location to ship goods from east to west and vice versa.

            The Ottomans traded with empires all over the world. They received fur, grain and amber from Southern Russia, mirrors and drugs from Europe. In return the Ottomans shipped tea, silk, spices and porcelain. The ottomans were really organized and they traded legally. For every shipment there was a tax imposed. This tax did not exceed 10% of the shipment value. All trading was supervised by the government and anyone who tries to evade paying the taxes would be punished.

outline Omar El Gendy

Qouestion: how and why did trade effected econemyt in the ottoman empire?
paraghraph1: introduction about the Ottoman wealth, power, culture. information about the Ottoman empire. Nomad people who moved around for food, agriculture, land.
paraghrapgh2: During renaissance trading was from city to city or by merchant chip. ways of trading. kinds of trading objects, traditions, culture.
paraghrph3: The Ottoman economic mind was closely related to the basic concepts of state and society in the Middle East in which the ultimate goal of a state was consolidation and extension of the ruler's power, and the way to reach it was to get rich resources of revenues by making the productive classes prosperous
paraghraph4: location of the Ottoman and trade. The economic structure of the Empire was defined by its geopolitical structure. The Ottoman Empire stood between the West and the East, thus blocking the land route eastward and forcing Spanish and Portuguese navigators to set sail in search of a new route to the Orient. The Empire controlled the spice route that Marco polo once used. 
paraghraph5: Modern Ottoman studies think that the change in relations between the Ottomans and central Europe was caused by the opening of the new sea routes. It is possible to see the decline in the significance of the land routes to the East as Western Europe opened the ocean routes that bypassed the Middle East and Mediterranean as parallel to the decline of the Ottoman Empire itself.
paraghraph6: the latest technology of the ottoman empire. what is the main reason for trading those objects.
paraghraph7: conclussion: my opinion at the ottoman empire. How did it end and why?