The political and military factors of the fall, it is often difficult to isolate one exact element as the main reason for the decline. But because the system of the Ottoman Empire depended so much on the sultan to stimulate it, guide it and keep it united, and from the moment of collapse it was, in fact, accompanied by serious elements of corruption within the organization of the sultanate and the people who held the office of the sultanate. , one can assume that this was, certainly, the key to the fall. Even during the glorious days of Suleiman's reign there was a decline. Perhaps it was a lot to expect that the Ottoman Empire or any other empire could maintain a constant succession of skilled sultans like the sultans who had created the empire. On the contrary, since it was so dependent on the sultan's personality, a single weak sultan was enough to open the doors to a sequence of nullities and incompetents. The majority of members of the Sipahis and Kapikulu feudal body married, left garrisons, became landowners, artisans or merchants, abandoned military training together, and retained membership in their groups only for the period before...