•Ottomans gain
supremacy in the Turkish kingdoms, resist the Mongols, expand to control the whole
Muslim world
•Turks absorb the
Indo-European peoples in Asia Minor, so Turkik genes are minimal in Turkey
•Ottomans control much
of Central Europe, stop at Vienna
•Ottoman Empire weakens
in 1800s, lose final control after World War 1
•Greece and Central
Europe become independent
