OTTOMAN POLITICAL

TYPE OF GOVERNMENT

• Sultan was the supreme monarch
• They had a bureaucracy
• Divan were advisors and ministers gathered around a council
• Grand Vizier was appointed to assume certain Sultan responsibilities
• Turk Revolution of 1908 was when the Ottoman state became a constitutional monarchy

GOVERNMENT TYPE CONT.

• Before the reforms of the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire was very simple
• They only had 2 main dimensions, the military and civil administrations
• The Imperial Harem was home to the Sultan's concubines
• This helped insure that the Sultan got a male heir to the throne
• The concubines also had a large political influence on him, his favorites had a lot of influence on him

MILITARY

• Captured Austrian capital Vienna became scourge of Christian Europe and threatened southern Italy
• Turkic cavalry became a warrior aristocracy
• janissaries- young boys captured
• -janissaries tried to translate military service into political influence
• -often times the death of a sultan left warring between the sons