Why All of Europe Feared the Ottoman Empire for 300 Years

For over 200 years, no coastline, kingdom, or capital in Europe felt fully safe from the Ottoman Empire. From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the gates of Vienna in 1683, this is the story of how a small band of Anatolian raiders became the empire that Europe feared more than any other power in history. In this video: the fall of Constantinople and the cannon that broke walls no army had broken in a thousand years, the devshirme system and the rise of the Janissaries, Suleiman the Magnificent's conquest of Hungary at Mohács, the Barbary corsairs who raided coastlines as far as Ireland, the Great Siege of Malta, and the two failed sieges of Vienna that finally cracked the myth of Ottoman invincibility. #OttomanEmpire #History #Constantinople