The History of the Ottoman Empire

The two primary emerging European medieval kingdoms and the end of the Renaissance were France and England. And then here you have the Ottomans United. The routes into the Black Sea that had been the source of wealth for the Byzantine Empire suddenly became kind of a disadvantage because they were hundreds, if not thousands of miles away from the Atlantic ports. So these old syndromes continue to reverberate today in the same places, Iran. We've got pretty much it's been very advantageous for the Turks and they they're a NATO power.