The History of the Ottoman Empire

By the seventeenth century cracks were beginning to appear in the magnificent, evidet edifice. The sultans had become increasingly remote from reality and they rarely left the confines of their court. There was no clear line of inheritance in islamic law, which led to a vicious scuffle for power every single time a sultan died. Under rudolph the second, the emperor from 15 76 to 16 12, the imperial court at prague was one of the cultural centres of europe. Rudolph had assembled a massive art collection and a dream team of talent including kepler, bruno brahay and archim boldo. And there was also a famous opera designer and inventor cor