Why did the Ottoman empire shrivel and die? It was strongest empire in the world with a lot of land, people and ports...

Why did the Ottoman empire shrivel and die? It was strongest empire in the world with a lot of land, people and ports. How Westerners were able to pick it off as it was?

It was made up of Muslims who didn't know how to fight others or suppress dissent

the eternal anglo betrayed them

Nationalism, bad rulers and being backwards.

Same with any empires really

Ottomans had a lot of internal conflicts and had some incompetent rulers which doomed the empire.

Failure to modernise

Nothing can stand up to the USA and UK if they team up

It rose and fell like every other Empire, it lasted much longer than most actually

Because winger hussars arrived.

There exists a board specifically for the purpose of discussing matters such as this.

>UK
Why though?

when America was discovered (Columbus wanted to find a way to India so that the West could avoid dealing with the Ottomans) and alternate routes east were put in place by the Portugese and others, the Ottomans were bypassed and slowly slid into an economic backwater.

Europe was that desperate to blockade Ottomans?
That board moves slow and less nice
USA bullied Ottoman??

we failed because we colonized arapes and balkanshits instead of areas that the russian empire stole. look at south ukraine and most uninhabitated areas in russia in western and big parts of central russia where the slavs doesn't live, it doesn't makes sense why russia should have those.

sounds like america

>weeafag
dayooth

Europe was that desperate to blockade Ottomans?
it wasnt about blockading them, the Ottomans blocked European access to the Silk road and got rich off it too, this forced Europeans to search for an alternate route to the East and lead to less reliance on the silk road and increased wealth from the New world which left the Ottomans out

Christopher Columbus was actually searching more for the East Indies or Spice Islands, most of which are now the modern state of Indonesia. There was a massive world trade in spices and a vast mark-up in prices. Europe was cut off by Ottoman empire.

this and gold flooding in from americas boosted w.europe and let them buy out materials

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Sup Forums is the intellectual (and the black) man's choice

The Ottomans were fairly long-lived as far as empires of that size go

God punished them for spreading a false religion.

Maybe Ottoman should have attempted colonize around spice islands? '3'

Because they were fucking primitive and had shit agriculture, shit taxation, shit soft power projection, shit bureaucracy...it took several centuries of training by Western Europeans to finally stabilise the country, but then it spontaneously imploded anyway cause it turned out that half of its citizens were nomadic Arabs who wouldn't play along.

>slovenia

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Stagnant systems which led to the inability to adapt when the rest of the world changed.

rapebaby please

>shit soft power projection, shit bureaucracy.
These are actually correct

kys, Arab rapebaby

a-are you actually a Senegalese(French)