It's even more retarded if you consider that all subspecies of turks were spin-offs of the Golden Horde and that Jenkins Khan's very grandson, Berke, reverted and made the Golden Horde a weapon of terror to the service of pisslam.
Anyone have any stuff on knights vs mongols...
Blake White
Dominic Miller
I still can't quite wrap my head around how the Ottomans managed to screw up as hard as they did. To go from the superpower that could have owned as much of Europe, Africa, and Central Asia as they wanted to … well … a bunch of Turks is a fall from grace that beggars belief.
Oliver Reyes
Infighting, they kept leaving multiple male heirs who would sometimes side with the Europeans to attack their siblings, kek
Nathaniel Evans
So the Kebab was self removing?
Owen Nguyen
Basically.
Also because off all the chimping out they did and jizya, traders who used to go through Anatolia and the middle east stopped doing it, which lead to the exploration age as Europeans tried to find alternate trade routes to the East Indies and China, which ultimately lead to the discovery of the West Indies, most of Africa and America, which cut off almost all of the Turk's money they gained from trading and operating trade routes while leading to the Renaissance in Europe.
Being turkroaches was the downfall of the ottomans
Evan Walker
So all that needs to happen for Europe to reclaim Anatolia would be for the Burgers to stop funding and defending the Turkmen occupiers.
Sebastian Wright
The only reason they lasted that long was because of the Schism and consequently multilateral perfidiousness and backstabs between European powers viewing the Ottoman as a perpetual borderline failure that was to be used as diplomatic trump card between actually competent White empires.
The "mighty" empire of gunpowder had their shit handed over so hard by a handful of ragtag-clad bandits that went crying to Egypt for help. The very moment a unified Christian European front decided that Greeks would make a more reliable buffer state than the durkas the Ottoman empire fell in a single proper battle.
en.wikipedia.org
Eli Perry
It was the central empire of a civilization, therefore they fall from grace the same way Rome did: they were blinded by their own power and hubris, and so they didn't care about the outside world, preferring internal squabbles.
Jose Anderson
Now that's just embarrassing. Hell, several African tribes managed to give Europe a bloodier nose than that from a much weaker position.
Sebastian Roberts
They had no semblance to Rome, their mentality was almost identical to its Mongol Empire predecessor, just militaristic expansion and establishment of draconic laws and tributary taxation. Whatever bureaucratic and economic functions were required to sustain the infrastructure left by the Byzantines was ran by Greeks and Armenians, since the vast majority of ethnic turks were illiterate and their job was just to fight and hoarde loot, and the slave trade was largely ran by kikes.