Ottoman Empire Expansion

In the early-modern period(1500-1800s), powers became actively involved in global trades, colonization and slaves trades. Powers greatly expand, means strengthen its power, internally to express in fuller form and externally increase its influence power. Ottoman Empire had enjoyed an expansion and consolidation of power during this period. After the conquest of Constantinople which was the second Rome, her expansion geographically became huger which made her became a great empire at that time. Japan, as an Asia empire, had greatly expanded within its military, religion and culture area. Although Historians identified its expansion policy as isolation policy, Japan had proved her success through turned into an empire, which greatly surprised

The emerged of other empires, long-distance trade was beneficial in military and commercial areas, seek for a protection of traders from piracy were some reasons. The reasons of Ottoman Empire expand were similar. The Ottomans’ economy was falling behind the Western world, so they wanted to imitate the West to reform their empires, expand was one of the way. The confidence of their successes also motivated them to expand further. The Ottomans cut off the Byzantine capital by ships and lately conquest Constantinople, which known as the Roman Empire of the east, through city walks. Thus they succeeded to put land and sea together to clasp Anatolia, the Balkans, Thrace and along the eastern Mediterranean, Black Sea etc. into a single imperial space. This success had greatly brought proud and glorious to themselves, even a mean of salvation to them, which motivated them to have a further expansion, to further attain more delicious paradises. The rise of competitor also drove them to further expansion. For instance, the Ottomans had grown command over the eastern Mediterranean, yet the Habsburgs had prevented the Ottomans from passing Hungary to invade Spain itself. They kept the Ottomans fleet in the east Mediterranean and to reach some fragile truces in the 1580s. They also started to develop their overseas ventures, thus raised the sense of danger of Ottomans to expand