VHG... Look at this beautiful empire. The Third Roman Empire.
>>18400724>buck broken by austria alonegrim... besides the spanish empire was much bigger and a third roman empire than this underveloped shithole
Without a doubt, the most magnificent empire. Far ahead of its time
>>18401807>Austria on its ownBroken by austria alone? HAHAHAHAH Without the Russians, the Poles, and the Holy Roman Empire, Austria wouldn’t have been able to do a damn thing.>underdeveloped shithole I don’t know if it was developed, but it was certainly more developed than Europe and Asia at the time.>spanish empireAre you talking about the Spanish Empire, which practised consanguineous marriage and committed genocide against and abused the indigenous peoples of South America?
>>18401817>Holy Roman EmpireAustria was the HRE manifest. Like the Elden Beast to the Elden Ring
>>18401861Yeah. And that doesn’t change a thing. still same.
>>18401817The Ottoman Empire was relatively developed but lagged noticeably from the 17th century onwards. The Spanish Empire for all of its flaws effectively made Ottoman power throughout the Mediterranean far less relevant through colonisation and exploration despite the Ottomans being stronger on land for pretty much all of its existence - besides Spain was far richer and has a far more important legacy (I mean, who speaks Turkish outside of Turkey and its diaspora?). Besides, as interesting as I find the Ottomans, in the 600+ years of their existance - what notable art have they produced? What notable literature have they produced? What technological institutions and inventions have been produced by those who lived in their empire? Maybe its just ignorance but I really can't think of any. Honestly, I think the only good thing the Ottomans accomplished was peace, they spanned many cultures, languages and religions which even today don't entirely get along and were still able to hold a coherent state which only really got fucked once it became clear that European powers were more populated, technologically advanced and could bully the Ottomans at will.
>>18401889>peaceArab tribal wars were happening all over the middle east, Anatolian and south Balkan honor feuds were raging and the Christian Balkans were waging a never ending guerilla war against their oppressors. There was no pax Ottomana, its pretty shocking honestly what a dystopian shithole it was.
>>18400724ottoman era algeria is such a nightmare to map it's hilarious
That area would have done much better if the ottoman caliph switched to a head of state of a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy and equal rights for Muslims and Christians around the early 1800s, I mean by the time oil would be discovered it would become a true global power
>>18400724Why is lebanon its own territory in this map
>>18400724>The Third Roman Empire.There wasn't a second Roman Empire
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>>18402736Because we literally wuz kings alongside our Chinese friends while honkys were bathing in excrement and burning women and kittens for sorcery
