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Ottoman Empire: Power Rising from the East
🕑 Added 2015-09-26 17:53:00 +0000 UTC The results of the latest poll are in, and the Ottoman Empire won! We saw a tight three-way race between the other candidates for second place, but it does seem fitting that the second part of our Justinian and Theodora series will be followed up by the next empire to rule Constantinople.Many thanks to the patron who sent this suggestion in, and who will be featured on the sponsors list when this series comes out in January or February of 2016!
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Extra History
Well, I'm sorry you missed the vote, but glad you're happy with the results! In general, we hold votes at the end of every series, so keep an eye out for the next one at the end of Admiral Yi.
Halil Köklü
I joined as a patreon to vote on more topics about the middle east and found that this has already been chosen, which is my favorite part of history :). Looking forward to the series.
Extra History
We're not decided yet, but we'll definitely take a snapshot of one era of Ottoman history and do a deep dive on that. In the same way, our World War I series covered just the beginning of WWI, but hopefully gave people enough of a taste that those who wanted to know more decided to go find it. Plus, the snapshot approach means we can always come back and do another series about the same empire in a different era!
Extra History
I know, right? We originally envisioned each series as four weeks plus Lies, but now that we've gotten deeper into it we find that too often, four weeks would cut the topics too short. We're cutting them pretty short already at six weeks, but still!
Christina Maria Jessen
Damn, moving up to the birth of Turkey would be a confusing, miserable story for everybody involved. It'd hold a genocide, several ethnic purges committed by multiple parties, lots of British and French imperialism, a world war, a civil war and possibly a number of smaller wars if it goes before WWI and pretty much nobody with any kind of power to root for. It's also pretty hard to turn into a coherent narrative since there isn't much of a central character you can focus it on, nor a single main thrust of events to focus on.
RMS Oceanic
Speaking from a narrative viewpoint, the logical climax of the story would probably be the fall of Constantinople. They are not yet at their peak, but it firmly establishes them as players on the world stage. A hypothetical Part 2 could probably take you up to Vienna. I'm not sure whether a part 3 should cover the stagnating/decline period - but then I'm not an expert on Ottoman history - or maybe jump into WW1 and the birth of Turkey.
Stephen
Seems pretty amazing that we've got topics up to the start of 2016 now. And how few topics that is even doing weekly episodes...
Marco Honrade
Sounds good, what years are you guys planning to cover for this series? I can't Imagine fitting the entire history of the Ottoman Empire from the Founding of the House of Osman to Defeat in WW1 in 7 episodes.
