World History › Section N · Crisis and new empires, 1300-1500 › Topic N.5
The early Ottomans and the Mongols
Around 1300 the Ottomans ruled one small principality on the Byzantine frontier. Within about 150 years they had crossed into Europe, survived a crushing defeat by Timur and taken Constantinople. This topic traces how, and asks how historians explain it.
In this topic
- Anatolia and Osman's principality
- Worked example: were the first Ottomans holy warriors?
- Across the straits
- Bayezid the Thunderbolt
- Timur
- Ankara and the interregnum
- Timars and Murad II
- The fall of Constantinople
- Worked example: two Greek historians of 1453
- Mehmed's Istanbul
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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