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After the Medieval Era but before the Industrial Revolution, how did kingdoms and empires sustain standing armies?
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Many Ottoman politicians and generals were of a slave background. Have they ever resented this? What was it about Ottoman society that these people of slave background are given so much responsibility and power?
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What are good sources on what the Islamic Caliphates of the Medieval Era thought about the various people that lived in or had relations to the Caliphate?
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So on a thread here talking about the Ottoman military, there was an answer that said like “The Ottomans were militarily and politically powerful, but they were not economically powerful.” Which I wonder about.
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