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What Is the Focus of the Early Ottoman Period?
As a paleontologist, you have to make the best of what you've got. You can construct a model of what he most likely would have been like. And as long as we're honest and show our work, i think we can get pretty close. It's amazing how the trickle down effects. I mean, for example, in a monasteries, one of the coarse subjects that were taught was logic. We don't have a single text from his time period. Some ottoman historians have said the time of his origin is a black hole. So they've used contemporary sources from other empires. They've used prosopography, or your creating sort of a generic stand
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