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Suleiman the Magnificent - The Lawgiver - Extra History
🕑 Added 2016-03-25 16:54:14 +0000 UTC With his best friend and the love of his life by his side, Suleiman is ready to take on the world.
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Robbie the Gnome
It's the way of human beings. We're hard wired to protect the young. He wanted him out of the way but a murderered child is a sight that even some of the most hardened of killers, warriors, and generals would find reprehensible.
Robbie the Gnome
It's Sulieman's complete trust of Ibrahim that I find worrying. I think a small misadventure will topple their finely laid plans. But that's so often the way of it.. one little misfortune or tragic misstep throws everything into chaos.
Jim McGeehin
Not a problem. I write a bunch on military history, strategy, and tactics all the way from antiquity to modernity, and I think the evolution of warfare is something critical to understand when studying history.
The Cayute
The cold, cynical bastard in me believes the boy-king was not killed by Ottoman musket balls, but by someone much closer to the boy. Still, I'm not as much a student of history where the Middle East is concerned, but why do I get the feeling Ibraham and Suleiman are going to come to blows? Is it the same, cold, cynical part of my soul, or recognizing that history often doesn't allow two great men to share the same stage?
Extra History
That's an interesting impact from gun warfare that I hadn't ever considered yet. Thank you for the insight! -Soraya
Extra History
War. War never changes.
Extra History
Poor King Louis. :( Still, I hope we did a good job with it.
Extra History
It'll come out a little more during the course of the series, but we may yet discuss it during Lies!
Extra History
Glad you enjoyed it!
Extra History
Don't jinx it!
Jim McGeehin
The Ottoman method of warfare shows the profound change that firearms and cannons were bringing to military science. Troops could be trained and replaced relatively quickly, and thus, the Ottoman Empire focused less on maneuver as Hannibal and Belisarius would do, and more upon superior resources and logistics. Thus, Suleiman was able to win battles like the Siege of Rhodes, which in an era past would be seen as an appalling strategic failure (the Knights of Rhodes inflicted more than twice their total troop count in casualties to the Ottoman forces) because in this new era, soldiers could be replaced relatively easily, and there was enough coin and food to manage the larger armies of this new era.
Curtis Fric
Suleiman fights a massive battle to take over land from Hungary. They kill thousands of men. He gets upset over the boy-kings body. Such priorities eh?
Aaron hutchinson
And yet doesn't it seem from the beginning of the episode that Suleiman didn't feel that way.
Hung Nguyen
Such a contrast to Justinian. In comparison, it feels like Suleiman is such marching on a road of victory with little to no setbacks.
Halil Köklü
Awesome episode
Martin Ockovsky
Great work. Thank you
Yazen Shunnar
Perhaps it would be good to explain the danger's of Ottoman court in the the lies video? I believe many viewers will need more context on why Ibrahim feared being promoted, and why his loyalty was so important to Suleiman. Why the competition between Roxalana and the Sultan's other wives could have such large ramifications.
Richárd Nagyfi
the "Mohácsi vész" is one of the saddest moments in hungarian history, yet it somehow feels great to watch an extra history episode about it
Russano Greenstripe
Holy hot mess!
