The Ottoman Empire’s 17th and 18th centuries were an era of…
The Ottoman Empire’s 17th and 18th centuries were an era of genuine vitality in poetry, prose, music, painting, cartography, historiography, astronomy, and other fields. Socially, the period saw the consolidation of Ottoman society as a multiethnic, multireligious state. All subjects, Muslim & non-Muslim, were organized into smaller communities called millets.