Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164 Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/history-matters-store-2 Special Thanks to the following Patrons for their support on Patreon: James Bisonette Richard Wolfe Franco La Bruna Kevin Sanders Daniel Lambert Chris Fatta Joshua Andrew Niedbala Mitchell Wildoer anon Cornel Danny Anstess Blaine Tillack Matthew Will Davis-Coleman Bernardo Santos William Foster Norman A. Letterman Shaun Pullin Perry Gagne Joooooshhhhh Henry Rabung Paul Armani_Banani Byzans_Scotorius Jeffrey Schneider FuzzytheFair Spencer Smith João Santos Richard Manklow William Olson Andrew Keeling Rbj Chance Cansler Mark Bevan Why didn't the Ottoman Empire colonise the Americas? Mostly, it was geography and a confidence that it wouldn't change the balance of power. Sources: Law in China or Conquest in the Americas: Competing Constructions of Political Space in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire by Baki Tezcan in: Journal of World History, Vol. 24 (2013). The Era of Suleyman the Magnificent: Crisis of Orientation by Subhi Labib in: International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 10 (1979).