Question

In what way might the expansion

Answer 1

The expansion might what in a way

Answer 2

In a vague and uncertain way, I suppose.

Answer 3

I an oddly unfamiliar and probabilistic manner, I may add.

Answer 4

All miss the point : in THE EXPANSIVE WAY !

Answer 5

Meaning the expansion of Islam

Answer 6

@whydoineedausername you have been RickRolled by islamobashers !

Answer 7

and how it contributed to the European expansion

Answer 8

what

Answer 9

Correction: European CEMETERIES' EXPANSION for a THOUSAND ODD YEARS

Answer 10

you are very funny

Answer 11

harassing people trying to ask questions...class act. Might I add

Answer 12

Unfortunately GRAVE is NOT FUNNY.

Answer 13

yes fortunately

Answer 14

After striking a blow to the weakened Byzantine Empire in 1356 (it is disputed that the year may have been 1358 due to a change in the Byzantine calendar), (see Suleyman Pasha) which provided it a basis for operations in Europe, the Ottoman Empire started its westward expansion into the European continent in the middle of the 14th century. Its first significant opponent was the young Serbian Empire, which was worn down by a series of campaigns, notably in the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, in which the leaders of both armies were killed, and which gained a central role in Serbian folklore as an epic battle and beginning of bad luck for Serbia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_wars_in_Europe

Answer 15

ok. Thank you for none of your useful help @Mikael

Answer 16

SO as all muslim-lovers you think European graves are FUNNY ?

Answer 17

Has there even been a question asked here yet? Ya' know, like in a complete sentence sort of way..

Answer 18

Also, *ahem* is it a 'Mathematics' question?

Answer 19

ALL THESE GRAVEYARDS WERE REALLY EXPANSIVE
The Ottoman Empire proceeded to conquer the lands of the Balkans, Thrace and Macedonia, after the Battle of Maritsa in 1371, Sofia in 1382, the then capital of Bulgaria Tarnovgrad in 1393, the northern rest after the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396, except Vidin, which fell in 1422; Albania in 1385 (Battle of Savra) and again in 1480; Constantinople in 1453 after the Battle of Varna and Second Battle of Kosovo; Greece in 1460; Serbia by 1459 and (after partial Hungarian reconquest in 1480) again by 1499; Bosnia in 1463 (the Northwestern part only by 1527) and Herzegovina in 1482.[2][3]
[edit]Growth (1453–1683)

See also: Growth of the Ottoman Empire

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political history
Growth of the Ottoman Empire
Time span 230 years
# Sultans 11
Soc-econ Enlargement
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Graphical timeline
The defeat in 1456 at the Siege of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade)

Answer 20

What way might the expansion of Islam have contributed to the European expansion in the modern era?

Europeans sought to convert new people to Christianity to counteract Islamic influence.

Europeans were desperate to get to China before the Chinese were converted to Islam.

Europeans were compelled to search for sea trade routes to Asia to avoid crossing Islamic lands.

Europeans who contributed to the Crusades were exposed to different cultures and languages.

Answer 21

Aha - Crusades were a "creative destruction" weren't they not ?...

Answer 22

It was all about the money.

Answer 23

and the power

Answer 24

No ABOUT LAND AND WHITE EUROPEAN FEMALES

Answer 25

so would that mean trying to get to China before Islam could convert the people...?

Answer 26

Please ask these in the History section... thanks.

Answer 27

Conquest of central parts of Hungarian Kingdom
Main article: Ottoman–Hungarian Wars
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Ottoman–Hungarian Wars
The Kingdom of Hungary, which at the time spanned the area from Croatia in the west to Transylvania in the east, was also gravely threatened by Ottoman advances. The origins of such a deterioration can be traced back to the fall of the Árpád ruling dynasty and their subsequent replacement with the Angevin and Jagiellonian kings. After a series of inconclusive wars over the course of 176 years, the kingdom finally crumbled in the Battle of Mohács of 1526, after which most of it was either conquered or brought under Ottoman suzerainty. (The 150-year Turkish Occupation, as it is called in Hungary, lasted until the late 17th century but parts of the Hungarian Kingdom were under Ottoman rule from 1421 and until 1718.)
[edit]Conquest of Serbia
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Medieval Serbian-Turkish Wars
Main article: History of the Serbian-Turkish wars
As a result of heavy losses inflicted by the Ottomans in the Battle of Maritsa in 1371, the Serbian Empire had dissolved into several principalities. In the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, Serbian forces were again annihilated. Throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, constant struggles took place between various Serbian kingdoms on the one hand, and the Ottoman Empire on the other. The turning point was the fall of Constantinople to the Turks. In 1459 following the siege, the "temporary" Serbian capital of Smederevo fell. Montenegro was overrun by 1499. Belgrade was the last major Balkan city to endure Ottoman forces. Serbs, Hungarians and European crusaders defeated the Turkish army in the Siege of Belgrade in 1456. After repelling Ottoman attacks for over 70 years, Belgrade finally fell in 1521, along with the greater part of the Kingdom of Hungary. The Serbian Despotate fell in 1540, thus marking the Ottoman conquest of all Serbian territories.


Ottoman advances resulted in some of the captive Christians being carried deep into Turkish territory.
[edit]1463–1503: Wars with Venice
This section requires expansion. (May 2008)
Main articles: Ottoman–Venetian War (1463–1479) and Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503)
The wars with the Republic of Venice began in 1463, until a favorable peace treaty was signed in 1479 after the lengthy siege of Shkodra (1478–79). In 1480, now no longer hampered by the Venetian fleet, the Ottomans besieged Rhodes and captured Otranto.[6] War with Venice resumed from 1499 to 1503. In 1500, a Spanish-Venetian army commanded by Gonzalo de Córdoba took Kefalonia, temporarily stopping the Ottoman offensive on eastern Venetian territories. Which is resumed after the Ottoman victory of Preveza, fought between an Ottoman fleet and that of a Christian alliance assembled by Pope Paul III in 1538.

Answer 28

I'm pretty sure the correct answer is the one about trade routes to the east. Either way though. This is the mathematics forum and I'm sure you'd get better help in the history section.

Answer 29

Ok! Thanks for your help. I'm new to this site :)

Answer 30

@CliffSedge

Answer 31

Good luck.