From Instagram + the Ottomans just saved us from many shity dramas about people go to conflicts over who has the right to the throne based on boring lineages.
From Instagram + the Ottomans just saved us from many shity dramas about people go to conflicts over who has the right to the throne based on boring lineages.
Didnt the Ottomans just kill all of the brothers usually except the heir. This is the reason they only had one civil war
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In the latter days of the Ottoman Empire, brothers of the Sultan were secluded in the harem, where many of them went mad. This was only made apparent when the Janissaries occasionally toppled their soup pots and pulled a coup.
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Please don’t steal memes. Go make original memes instead. That’s plagiarism. Â
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That’s not an Ottoman thing but a royal thing.
Didnt the Ottomans just kill all of the brothers usually except the heir. This is the reason they only had one civil war
In the latter days of the Ottoman Empire, brothers of the Sultan were secluded in the harem, where many of them went mad. This was only made apparent when the Janissaries occasionally toppled their soup pots and pulled a coup.
Please don’t steal memes. Go make original memes instead. That’s plagiarism. Â
Here’s the original https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comments/1egoduk/the_ottoman_interregnum_be_like/
As a first born male myself, it’s the only way inheritance should be. Little brothers are always expendable