Opinion of the Ottoman Empire

[minionofmidas]

Negative, obviously. But no worse than most of the countries of its day (not really thinking of its slow terminal 19th century decline, which is other people's fault besides its own).

[minionofmidas]

Negative, obviously. But no worse than most of the countries of its day (not really thinking of its slow terminal 19th century decline, which is other people's fault besides its own).

Did most of the countries of the day kidnap non-Christian children, in order to brainwash into fanatical Christian soldiers?

The Spanish certainly did as well. The Germans tried the approach for a while too, actually, but not for very long and several centuries earlier.

If we're just thinking of "kidnapping", well there's the slave trade...

[minionofmidas]

Negative, obviously. But no worse than most of the countries of its day (not really thinking of its slow terminal 19th century decline, which is other people's fault besides its own).

Did most of the countries of the day kidnap non-Christian children, in order to brainwash into fanatical Christian soldiers?

The Spanish certainly did as well. The Germans tried the approach for a while too, actually, but not for very long and several centuries earlier.

If we're just thinking of "kidnapping", well there's the slave trade...

The Spanish? Who and when?

Native Americans of the "wild" nations along their border of settlement, almost to the very end of their colonial empire there.