Instructional Video
Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Empire, Republic, Democracy: A History of Turkey

9th - 10th
Video lessons from notable scholars traces the final years of the Ottoman Empire, the birth of the Turkish Republic, and contemporary issues in Turkey.
Audio
15 Minute History

15 Minute History: History of the Ottoman Empire Part 1

9th - 10th
A podcast [21:57] identifying the origin of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, created in 1299. Find out who these people were and how they became so successful.
Audio
15 Minute History

15 Minute History: History of the Ottoman Empire Part 2

9th - 10th
Listen to part two of the History of the Ottoman Empire podcast. [22:33] Consider the people of the great empire that survived longer than any other economic system. How did the empire last as long as it did? What were the conditions?...
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course World History #19: Venice and the Ottoman Empire

9th - 10th
John Green discusses the strange and mutually beneficial relationship between a republic, the citystate of Venice, and an Empire, the Ottomans. Together, the Ottoman Empire and Venice grew wealthy by facilitating trade: The Venetians had...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Conserving the Damascus Room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

9th - 10th
This video [3:19] features the Damascus Room [1707] which served as the reception area within a Syrian home of the Ottoman period. Extensive conservation and historical research were carried out by the Metropolitan Museum in preparation...