How have the Turks helped the mankind and the civilization?

Question

Hi. I am doing a school homework for national contributions to mankind and civilization. So i really stuck in Turkey. My list so far is:

1. Dolma

2. Turkish toilet

Please help me to fill up my list, because my teacher will punish me if i will not bring enough information.

Thank you. I appreciate it!

Answer 1

kebab and yoghurt

Answer 2

If you are going with the simple, how about yogurt?

And for a more complex approach, the Turks have shown the world that a benign empire can exist. I'm talking about an empire that doesn't assimilate local cultures, let them speak their own languages and practice their own religions, manage their own affairs.

The Ottoman administration was based upon this system. Each community was organized around its own church or temple, had their own hierarchical system and the top person represented the community at court.

Historians point to the similarity with the Roman system there, and call the Ottoman Empire, the Third Rome. You must remember that the Ottoman Empire was founded upon the remains of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Answer 3

hi,

here is my list ,too

1)Alaturca style

2)Turkish coffee

3)Cup

4)Tulip

5)Lilac

6)carpet

7)Carex arenaria, or Sand sedge

8)Morocco-leather

9)Turkish hamam

1)by Jean Paul Roux

http://www.bibliomonde.com/auteur/jean-p...

especially i would recommend this book:

http://www.bibliomonde.com/livre/histoir...

2)http://www.cybersamurai.net/Mythology/no...

please read 3.section  "Frá Trjóumönnum"

3)by Dr.Doğu Perinçek

http://www.kaynakyayinlari.com/pinfo.asp...

4)By L.N Gumilev

http://www.allbookstores.com/book/978587...

5)By Alastair Hamilton

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/su...

6)By Fernand Braudel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_Bra...

•Civilisation matérielle, économie et capitalisme, XVe-XVIIIe siècle

* Les structures du quotidien (vol. 1, 1967) ISBN 2-253-06455-6

* Les jeux de l'échange (vol. 2, 1979) ISBN 2-253-06456-4

* Le temps du monde (vol. 3, 1979) ISBN 2-253-06457-2

7)by Helene Desmet-Gregoire

http://www.allbookstores.com/book/978286...

8)by A.Wunder

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/br...

this is for you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR5psCTnm...

Answer 4

It never ceases to amaze me how some Greeks are willing to go to ridiculous lengths just to insult Turks. You guys sure know how to hold a grudge.

Answer 5

In addition to other answers, I also would like to add:

1- Turkish cuisine in general not just kebabs and pitas, please read this article:

http://www.thingsasian.com/stories-photo...

2- Turkish miniature art

http://www.lesartsturcs.org/miniatures/i...

http://www.turkses.com/index.php?option=...

3- Turkish calligraphy

http://www.yurdan.com/yrdn/browse.aspx?B...

4- Ä°znik Tiles

http://e-turkey.net/v/bursa_iznik_nicea/...

5- Meerschaum (lületaşı) of Eskişehir (a soft white mineral):

6- Turkish carpets and kilims

7- Tarhana, a traditional Turkish fermented cereal food

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content...

8- The concept of shopping mall/ covered bazaar

google the history of grand bazaar in Ä°stanbul

9- Turkish coffee and the coffeehouse culture

http://www.turkish-coffee.org/turkish_co...

10- Fortune telling by reading the coffee grounds (Turkish style fortune telling) : )

http://www.turkish-coffee.org/cup_fortun...

11- Turkish art of marbling

http://ivideo.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/e...

12- Various Contributions of Turkish Armed Forces to Peace Support Operations:

http://www.tsk.mil.tr/eng/uluslararasi/b...

Answer 6

You're trolling.

To Greeting_Losers: yes, he's Greek, I know him from the Greece section.

Answer 7

Ottomans built the world's first submarine in the 1700's this was the first to fire a torpedo underwater

ibni sina(or avicenna) he was developed a new medical system europeans were regarded as a father of early modern medicine and main interpreters of Aristotle in the 1000's CE avicenna, Khwarizmi(or Al-Kourism) their works were copied and transferred europe after the middle ages ended

turks are the first who domesticated horses and built special equipments as harnesses by which they could spread Asia to Europe or europe to asia :) more easily

to greeting losers: there's no real consensus about it

Turkish Historical Society says he's a Turk also Bukhara or Khorasan which was one of  the main centres of turk civilization at least we know that he was born and raised in the Ghaznavid Empire which was turkic origin btw persian this latin term(not a race just a identity if it was a race we wouldnt say aryan)  was used for an empire with iranic and non iranic people like  turkmens, afghans, tajiks etc. you can check this article : Ä°slam Tababetinde Türk Hekimlerinin Mevkii ve Ä°bni Sina'nın Türklüğü  A. Süheyl Enver , Belleten Dergisi, 1, Belleten , Cilt: 1 - Sayı: 1 , 1937 II Kanun

Answer 8

Ottoman Empire did not do such a big thing as it is exagerrated. As the mothers of sultans were foreign, they allowed them to live there. What about the killing of brother each other for throne? Turks have nothing to help minkind.

http://PleasingVacations.com/

Answer 9

Spain sent C. Columbus to the West to find another sea route to India, because the Eastern route was blocked by the TURKS. Therefore, he discovered America.

No Turks, no America.

C?

Answer 10

Ok, I couldn't copy paste it all, because it is too long, but here is where you can find Turkish contribution to mankind. I strongly suggest you to read the part about the Ottoman political system.

http://www.middleeastinfo.org/forum/inde...

There are more that I'd like to add to the link above:

More on Piri Reis

The Piri Reis Map of 1513 is the first surviving map that shows the Americas (the Vinland map may be older but only shows a part of North America). The Piri Reis map shows North America, South America, Greenland and Antarctica which had not yet been discovered.

Piri Reis was a famous admiral of the Turkish fleet in the sixteenth century. His passion was cartography, he was always on the lookout for new maps and other such documents. In 1513 a map had been commissioned him.

Piri Reis was high rank within the Turkish navy which allowed him to have a privileged access to the Imperial Library of Constantinople. He was considered an expert on Mediterranean lands and coastlines, and he even wrote a famous sailing book called Kitabi Bahriye where he described all the details of coastlines, harbors, currents, shallows, bays and straits of the Mediterranean and Aegean seas. He died in 1554 or 1555 being beheaded for unknown reasons.

It is said that in a now-forgotten sea battle he met, among the prisoners, a sailor who claimed to have been sailing along with Columbus in his three journeys to the new world, and that he was one of his pilots. It turned out that Columbus had a map of the lands he was chasing, and that this map now was in the possession of that pilot.

The admiral Piri Reis got to put hands and eyes on the map; then in 1513 he compiled a world map based on that map and on the other antique charts from his collection - many of which had survived from the days of the Great Library of Alexandria.

The map had drawn the attention of scholars in 1929 when it had been discovered in the archives of the Imperial Palace in Constantinople.

The map showed the outline of South America very accurately. This was surprising since Columbus had discovered the New World only 21 years earlier in 1492.

Notes made by Piri indicated he had based his map on earlier maps, including one consulted by Columbus before his famous voyage.

This excited the scholars since there had been rumors that there existed a pre-Columbian map of the New World. Piri's claim that he had possessed the "lost map" intrigued historians.

It wasn't the accuracy of the South American coastline that interested Mallery, though. It was what was shown at the very bottom of the map: a chunk of land that looked very much like Antarctica.

This was surprising since Antarctica had not been discovered until 1820.

Even more intriguing was a section of the coastline of this southern continent.

Part of it looked very much like the coast of Queen Maud Land which was a section of Antarctica.

The strange thing was that the coast of Queen Maud Land had been covered with a thick sheet of ice for many centuries and its shape was only known now to modern mapmakers through the use of modern seismographic equipment.

This made Mallory wonder if the Admiral had somehow owned maps that dated back before the ice sheet covered the coast and if the coast had been somehow surveyed from the air.

Most serious professional geographers, though, rejected Mallery's radical theory without even considering it carefully.

Professor Charles H. Hapgood, of Keene State College at the University of New Hampshire, did take an interest in the map and Mallory's thoughts. Professor Hapgood was known for his support of unorthodox theories.

With the help of some of his students, Hapgood did a careful examination of Piri's map and several other old maps and published a book on the subject called Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings.

The book suggests that at one time in the ancient past there was a world-wide civilization with advanced technology. Though this civilization was destroyed, some of its knowledge survived to wind up in the maps.

Later, an even more radical theory for Piri's map was advanced from writer Eric Von Daniken. Von Daniken, a supporter of the idea that aliens had visited Earth in the distant past, noted that the map resembled what might be seen from space if you took a picture of Earth from directly over Cairo, Egypt. He suggested that the map was the result of aerial photographs taken from an alien spaceship.

Critics of Hapgood and Von Daniken offer a more mundane explanation for the map. They start by pointing out that lots of maps from that era displayed a continent at the bottom of the Earth, though none had yet been found.

The critics point out that the land mass shown on the map may have a similar coastline to that of Queen Maud Land, but the similarity is not unmistakable. What is on Piri's map, they argue, is just a lucky attempt to display an unknown, but suspected land. The similarity, say critics, is just coincidence.

They also point out that the map shows South America and Antarctica connected, which they have not been for many millions of years. Also information about weather conditions and animal life in Antarctica as found on the map is completely wrong.

Other experts speculate that though the first recorded sighting of land in the Antarctica was in 1820, there may have been earlier unreported voyages to the southern reaches.

Though this might not explain the coastline of Queen Maud Land on the Piri map, it might be the reason that there was such a strong belief in the existence of a southern continent.

YOGURT

The word derives from the Turkish yoğurt (pronounced [jɔˈurt]) deriving from the adjective 'yoğun', which means "dense" and "thick", or from the verb yoğurmak, which means "to knead" and possibly meant "to make dense" originally -- how yoghurt is made. The letter ğ denotes a voiced velar fricative /ɣ/ but this sound is elided between back vowels in Modern Turkish. Some eastern dialects retain the consonant in this position and Turks in the Balkans pronounce the word with a hard /g/. English pronunciation varies according to the local accent but common pronunciations include /ˈjɒgət/ and /ˈjoʊgɚt/.

VACCINATION

The technique of inoculation was not invented by Jenner and Pasteur but was devised in the Muslim world and brought to Europe from Turkey by the wife of the English ambassador to Istanbul in 1724. Children in Turkey were vaccinated with cowpox to fight the deadly smallpox at least 50 years before the West discovered it.

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Also, if Turks didn't exist there would be no Europe or European history now. Europe, as I always say, is a cultural concept. The siege of Istanbul gave Europeans an opportunity to unite themselves against an alien force, namely the infidel Muslims. If it wasn't for the Turks, Europeans would have slayed each other even more than they've already did, instead, with the help of charlatan popes they decided to take a hike in the East. If it wasn't for the Turks, most of your ancestors would have been Catholisized. As we say in Turkish "Şimdi kapağını da al eline, sakla kulaçlarını Ege denizine hadi canım" which translates as "I can think, therefore I am". Thank you for this question too, I love enlightening the curious youth.

Answer 11

Addendum to the above comments:

The roots of the western classical music is based on the Ottoman War March.

The only regular army of the middle ages was of Ottomans. Though I dont know to what extent it was copied by any European nation

You're right about the toilet, French took the concept from the Ottomans if I'm not mistaken.

Hmm so we saved you from a punishment I hope? By the way if your teacher is a feisty chick in her late 20s, let her punish you. u wont regret that

Btw yes, mentioning of Dolma exposes that this dude is Greek.

Re, pithanws trwgeis ton ntolma kathimerinos enw kathizeis epi ths tourkikhs toualeths. Kserw orthws; Xaxaxa!

EDIT: Avicenna was Persian not Turkish. Tho he was sponsored by Turkic rulers mostly