Talk:Ottomans/@comment-151.250.223.225-20150206143007/@comment-27726014-20190118174250

Nomadic kingdoms were made obsolete by the development of firearms. The Mongols were the last great nomad empire as after them firearms became too developed for nomad kingsdoms to defend themselves against the superior numbers and resources of settled kingdoms. The only reason Mongolia still exists today is simply because nobody wants the land. It's flat with low population, little water and almost no resources. Both Russia and China like having it there as a buffer state between them.

Turks were converted to Islam before the Ottomans. In fact there were Turkish kingdoms before the Ottomans. In fact it wasn't the Ottomans that made Anatolia turkish but the Seljuks centuries before them. Though even though Turks were the largest group in Anatolia they wouldn't become completely dominant until the formation of Turkey when a lot of the non-turks were driven out. Including infamously the Armenians but also other groups like Greeks and Kurds.