yeah well Alexander the Great notably claimed to be descended of Zeus and Achilles.....many people claim many things...mostly what suits them.

It seems like harem system would always supply enough successors, they did not have to beg the Pope to annul marriage, and allow a new one.

@@zarni000 most the gods were men that became defied,not all of them. ancestor worship whether in rome or in the Shinto religion is was a universal practice. Even german historians from the middle ages said Odin was an ancestor of the Germans and a king of theirs. Likewise the greek historians casually talk of the families and people descended from Zeus and his progeny

@Kdrgrp maybe yes , maybe no. See not all beys rule over a tribe , noblemen might be a much better translation for bey.

@Kdrgrp yes that is correct my friend

correct. But one more correction. it was it was not a Serb vs Ottoman only war. There were Hungarians and Bulgarian contingents fighting on the Christian side..

Hi Ismail, I was unaware of the heritage of the Safavids. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. As for CK2, I don't know if I have a computer up to the task of running it and I am so far behind on my PC gaming that I still haven't tried Civ 5 or Shogun Total War II.

Thersites the Historian i really really love ur channel and im not saying this to suck up or anything but its 2 channels that i watch on youtube about history and thats you and kings and generals i love your work my name is Ayaz Akif Hajiyev u can add me on fb if u wish to talk about history ik about my history and of my region and the history of around the world that is not to say that u need any help in what u are doing but just if u want somebody with an unbiased view on history im always open to discussion but that is not to say that im not proud of my turkic heritage and that i do not count them as the greatest conquerors in history from atilla onwards and i love ur emperors and diadochi series and am myself a huge supporter of the ptolemaic dynasty and i like also how u always claim that the muslim world was always as complex if sometimes not more than the rest anyways im rambling just because im a fan from Azerbaijan who studies in london and i really like ur take on things but in the future in 2-3 months because ur busy i would like to sponsor a video on turkic history and how my ancestors influenced the world from atilla untill the last ottoman and qajar unions and ps for the past 1000 years the region of iran was ruled by turkic people (Azerbaijanis) save for the zand dynasty even the pahlavi had to marry Azerbaijani women for legitimacy purposes and even the current ayatollah of iran is an iranian Azerbaijani thank you for responding uve made my day

This video was from a couple years ago, so that is probably why it didn't pop up in your feed.

@@ThersitestheHistorian True enough, the home-page will often toss suggestions from among a channels entire catalogue, it's a travesty such a thing did not happen in this case however. It was pretty interesting though, you feel like a really good high school history teacher at times, more often than not on older videos.

uhh I think by his daughter he meant the vizier's daughter, not Osman's.

I wrote my about page before I knew that I would teaching an online course this term. I link my students to these videos via Carmen. I am a grad student at Ohio State. Thanks, I'm glad that you enjoyed the video.

I think he does well because he's not trying to be overly PC like most other history channels on KZfaq. I saw a channel that refused to even mention the strangling. History is brutal guys no 2 ways about it

@@HxH2011DRA Dont get exclusivity issues or anything 😁 did they really? Do you recall the channel, if not it's understandable.

@@mrsir2254 nah been too long

Ertuğrul :)

Our narrator doesn't really do pronunciations very well. Almost every video he "Americanizes" other people's languages. I guess you can't be good at everything,

In turkish ghazi means "someone who survived many battles" not a conqueror. And its not arabic. its turkish

@Kdrgrp may be true. Thanks for the info

No Ghazi = Warrior Fathi = conquest

Yes, that is something that I plan to do eventually. Unfortunately, my back catalogue of things to do is rather long, so I will not even hazard a guess as to when I might actually get around to something like that.

@@ThersitestheHistorian he responds! Thank you I love your work.

It is. Many modern movie scenes and other pop culture things have been redone in a retro Ottoman style.

Great show, really digging it!

Gazi means conquere or raider not holy warrior

Cope and seethe Alan

Ghaza used to literally meant Strife. So ghazi means strifer or those who strive for. At least that's what Wiki etymology says. So i guess it's open to interpretation. But in today's Turkey and in the Late Ottoman Empire, Gazi doesn't mean holy warrior, conqueror or raider. It means those who got battle wound on battlefield, I guess you technically don't count as a true soldier without a battle wound. Maybe it was similar to that in back in the day. Maybe Osman had some sort of battle scar or wound. Maybe he fought on the front line.

One thing is for sure, Ghazi does not "Literally" meant Holy warrior. Same way the Crusader did not "Literally" meant holy warrior.

Can you blame them after the crusades?

They were castrated, thats how they enforced their no procreation policy. They could have sex with women since they could not produce sperm.

@@hoots187 Janissaries were castrated?? I've never read anything about that. What is your source?

@@johnmanno2052 My friend, as a Turk, I write the truth, Janissaries were brought from Europe, Central Asia and the conquered lands, and they were made Muslims. No castration, Homosexuality is forbidden in the Ottoman Empire. Death penalty. They were forbidden to marry, but they had intercourse with their lovers, secretly or for a fee, in taverns. read turkish sources, not westerners, greetings

I like how its so unbelivable to the western people today that a lot of people in the past MAY have actually practised celibate because of how oversexualised everything is today

Ok, I actually know your answer and Its very interesting

The answer is the semi-autonomous trade companies that march with the main army. (Kayi tribe used to one of them before evolved into the ottomans) Basically a trade company that is responsible for its own protection, aka. Kafila, follows the army and provides extra resources like quality food, quality armor, sweets etc. This way the ottomans has to only provide simple needs of the army, for example soup as the main ration (Corbaci/Soupmaker, the cook of the ottoman army) and army can pay their own food with their salary. This is also the reason why ottomans have some sort of fast food culture. (The Turkish Food Theory goes as that every traditional turkish food designed with considering these three factors: 1st one is the food designed to protect what is important 2nd, the food designed to be able to withstand harsh conditions 3rd, the food designed to be easily carried) Think about famous Turkish foods: Sarma, literally means covered in turkish, you can just put the food on hot water and let it cook. Its easy to carry. Kavurma, a meat that has been cook in its own fat for a long time, you can put it on a vaze and it wont spoil for years! The Dolma, literally means filling, is just you you fill a fruit, (technically a berry but whatever) like eggplant with rice and salted meat. It can last for years. Borek, is just meat or cheese wrapped on some sort of thin flat bread and cooked. Durum (meaning wrapped), Doner (litterally meast spinner), Chevirme (literally means turned) all food are designed to protect the meat and be carried easily. Also you can see that post Ottoman nations claim to first invent this food, while also claiming that their neighbours stole it from eachother.

It helps the moral of the army and give them a chance to spend their earnings. After the conquests, these trade companies were allowed to establish trade posts and obtain lands on the newly conquered territories. A win win for everyone.

Tldr: The main thing that slows down an army is the lack of resources, one way to fix this issue has private companies. Or what is equivalent of it. Imagine you are going to conquer lands and trucks full of snacks, quality smiths and tailors and food trucks coming with the main army. Imagine you are a tired soldier in an outpost on middle east, and you just move to the makeshift store near you and buy yourself an chocolate bar, a refreshing sode (its equivalent would be shebet) or an ice cream

At least this i what used to be before roads were not secure anymore after the end of 17th century. Then they used what other armies did; suffered.

They start training at that age

They were put in the muslim families so they could learn the language, culture and religion. At their springtime (I do not know what age that supposed to mean but I assume 14-15) they were put in the army

Its not like ottomans will pay to somebody teach them how not to pee yourself on bed, or to teach them how to count fingers. They just put them under a muslim family.

Don’t make please laughable comparisons with Alexander . Stick to the internal ottoman sultans, Alexander is one another level with very few others in the same league .

@@chrisd997 Do not forget that Solomon 1 prohibited dance in France with an order and ruled over 15 million square kilometers of land. He destroyed the Hungarian army of 100,000 in 2 hours Conquered 390 castles in Europe :) Countries connected to the Ottoman Empire in 1570 :) 1) Türkiye (Anadolu) 2) Bulgaristan (545 yıl) 3) Yunanistan (400 yıl) 4) Sırbistan (539 yıl) 5) Karadağ (539 yıl) 6) Bosna-Hersek (539 yıl) 7) Hırvatistan (539 yıl) 8) Makedonya (539 yıl) 9) Slovenya (250 yıl) 10) Romanya (490 yıl) 11) Slovakya (20 yıl) Osmanlı adı:Uyvar 12) Macaristan (160 yıl) 13) Moldova (490 yıl) 14) Ukrayna (308 yıl) 15) Azerbaycan (25 yıl) 16) Gürcistan (400 yıl) 17) Ermenistan (20 yıl) 18) Güney Kıbrıs R.Y. (293 yıl) 19) Kuzey Kıbrıs T.C. (293 yıl) 20) Rusya’nın güney toprakları (291 yıl) 21) Polonya (25 yıl)-himaye- Osmanlı adı: Lehistan 22) İtalya’nın güneydoğu kıyıları (20 yıl) 23) Arnavutluk (435 yıl) 24) Belarus (25 yıl) -himaye- 25) Litvanya (25 yıl)-himaye- 26) Letonya (25 yıl) -himaye- 27) Kosova (539 yıl) 28) Voyvodina (166 yıl) Osmanlı adı: Banat Asya 29) Irak (402 yıl) 30) Suriye (402 yıl) 31) İsrail (402 yıl) 32) Filistin (402 yıl) 33) Ürdün (402 yıl) 34) Suudi Arabistan (399 yıl) 35) Yemen (401 yıl) 36) Umman (400 yıl) 37) Birleşik Arap Emirlikleri (400 yıl) 38) Katar (400 yıl) 39) Bahreyn (400 yıl) 40) Kuveyt (381 yıl) 41) İran’ın batı toprakları (30 yıl) 42) Lübnan (402 yıl) Afrika 43) Mısır (397 yıl) 44) Libya (394 yıl) Osmanlı adı:Trablusgarp 45) Tunus (308 yıl) 46) Cezayir (313 yıl) 47) Sudan (397 yıl) Osmanlı adı: Nübye 48) Eritre (350 yıl) Osmanlı adı: Habeş 49) Cibuti (350 yıl) 50) Somali (350 yıl) Osmanlı adı: Zeyla 51) Kenya sahilleri (350 yıl) 52) Tanzanya sahilleri (250 yıl) 53) Çad’ın kuzey bölgeleri (313 yıl) Osmanlı adı: Reşade 54) Nijer’in bir kısmı (300 yıl) Osmanlı adı: Kavar 55) Mozambik’ in kuzey toprakları (150 yıl) 56) Fas (50 yıl) -himaye- 57) Batı Sahra (50 yıl) -himaye- 58) Moritanya (50 yıl) -himaye- 59) Mali (300 yıl) Osmanlı adı: Gat kazası 60) Senegal (300 yıl) 61) Gambiya (300 yıl) 62) Gine Bissau (300 yıl) 63) Gine (300 yıl) 64) Etiyopya’ nın bir kısmı (350 yıl) Osmanlı adı: Habeş Halifeye Bağlı Olan Ülkeler 65) Hindistan Müslümanları (Pakistan) 66) Doğu Hindistan Müslümanları (Bangladeş) 67) Singapur 68) Malezya 69) Endonezya 70) Türkistan Hanlıkları 71) Nijerya 72) Kamerun

@@fatihengin9782 still not even close . Alexander was , is and will always be remembered and studied. Don’t compare titans with just a competent conqueror . Have a nice day , and countries were not “connected “rather than butchered and conquered

@@chrisd997 Geschichte lügt nicht :) Lies neutrale Geschichte

@@fatihengin9782 couldn’t agree more , you can start even now it is never too late :) and next time list your sources . Spoiler alert this is the first step in the science of history , and Netflix is not :)

U should be thankful that he made a video for the only , the only empire in history that managed to produce nothing positive for the human civilization, except perfecting on enslavement of local indigenous people, taxing them and of course mass extermination policies .

@@chrisd997 I am thankful for the effort the producers put in this video. I appreciate the knowledge provided in it and the effort behind it. That is why I recommended pronunciation check. Your comnents are welcome, but not my concern at all.

@@dubarai very good answer that should be listed before going direct to criticism in your initial comment, like ottoman names are of some kind of importance to human civilization outside ottoman world . Take care