Ottomans

Question 1

Types of Threat in the Med

Answer 1

Threat to isolated Christian communities e.g. Rhodes
Threat to supply Lines
Threat to isolated naval bases such as oran, bougie and Tripoli

Question 2

Barbarossa allies himself to Sulheimann

Answer 2

1518

Question 3

1453

Answer 3

Constantinople falls to the Ottomans

Question 4

situation in 1520 in general

Answer 4

Sulheiman the magnificent was at the height of his powers thanks to the legacy of Selim II
Ottomans had overrun Albania, Serbia and Bosnia, only Hungary remained as a buffer, this led to the so-called ‘great fear’ of the muslim hordes

Question 5

1521 Europe

Answer 5

Sulheiman captures belgrade opening up the danube valley

Question 6

1526 Europe

Answer 6

Advances into the Danube Valley and Hungary routing the Hungarian king Louis II with a huge force of 100,000 men at the battle of Mohacs.
Louis Killed
“sent a shockwave of terror through Europe”
Capture Buda but retreat

Question 7

1527 Europe

Answer 7

Ferdiinand defeats Zapolya to the throne, he proclaims independence for Transyvania

Question 8

1529 Europe

Answer 8

Sulheimann advances on Vienna, captures the whole of Buda and Hungary, lays seige in September but orders retreat, still a huge physcological victory for the Ottomans

Question 9

1532 Europe

Answer 9

Second advance on Vienna, Charles in a better position due to religous peace of nuremburg and Peace of Cambrai and checks the advance at Guns

Question 10

1533 Europe

Answer 10

Ferdinand agrees unfavourable truce with Ottomans

Question 11

1540 Europe

Answer 11

Death of Zapolya, Ferdinand advances and seizes buda but weakness of position exposed

Question 12

1541 Europe

Answer 12

Sulheiman drives Ferdinand out of Buda and installs John Sigmund

Question 13

1547 Europe

Answer 13

Ferdinand accepts Ottoman ascendency and signs a truce

Question 14

Was the threat in Europe that bad?

Answer 14

‘The Ottoman Threat to Europe from the east was more apparent than real”
Long supply lines
Sulheiman also distracted with the persians a ‘periodic diversion’

Question 15

1522 Med

Answer 15

Ottomans seize Rhodes from Knights of St John

Question 16

1529 Med

Answer 16

Barbarosa seizes Penon and Spanish fleet looses 8 ships off Ibiza

Question 17

1528 Med

Answer 17

Defection of Andrea Doria transfering the Genoese fleet to Habsburg control

Question 18

1532 Med

Answer 18

Doria seizes Coron and Patras

Question 19

1534 Med

Answer 19

Tunis falls to Barbarossa leading to raids on the Ballearic Isles

Question 20

1535 Med

Answer 20

Charles’s biggest success, 400 ships and 60,000 men seize Tunis with over 80 of Barbarosa’s fleet seized and Barbarosa forced to flee to Algiers

Question 21

1536 Med

Answer 21

Unholy alliance between the French and Ottomans, able to shelter winters at Toulon and Marseille

Question 22

1538 Med

Answer 22

Following the Treaty of Nice Charles launches an attack on the Ottoman fleet but is forced to retreat at the Battle of Preveza leading to the Venetians abandoning the christian alliance

Question 23

October 1541 Med

Answer 23

Disasterous attack on Algiers with 150 ships and 17,000 men lost to storms

Question 24

1548 Med

Answer 24

Barbarosa dies and is replaced by Dragut

Question 25

1551 Med

Answer 25

Dragut takes Tripoli

Question 26

1554 Med

Answer 26

Penon lost

Question 27

1555 Med

Answer 27

Bougie Lost