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What the Ottoman Empire Teaches Us About Social Consequences of Climate Change
” width=”800″>The Battle of Navarino, in October 1827, marked the effective end of the Ottoman Empire’s occupation of Greece. Public Domain.
At its peak, the Ottoman Empire spanned three continents, its power was such that it controlled a vast part of Southeastern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
By Andrea Duffy
” width=”1080″>In the late 16th century, hundreds of bandits on horseback stormed through the countryside of Ottoman Anatolia raiding villages, inciting violence and destabilizing the sultan’s grip on power.
Four hundred years later and a few hundred miles away in the former Ottoman territory of Syria, widespread protests escalated into a bloody civil war in 2011 that persists to this day.