About the book: 2012 / How did the Ottoman Empire arise? How did a small Asian state become the most powerful empire in Europe and Asia within the lifetime of one generation? Can this be explained only by the aggressiveness and cruelty of the Turkish troops or the “passionarity” of the Turks, which scientists who are very far from military history tell us about? Or maybe it was a natural reaction of the Islamic world to the 400-year-old aggression of Catholic Europe in the Mediterranean and the Middle East? Moreover, this reaction was aggravated by the first full-scale social revolution in the history of mankind and the ideas of equality of all subjects of the empire, proclaimed by the Turkish sultans. The reader will learn about this and much more in the next book of the historian Alexander Shirokorad.