By developing commercial centres and routes, encouraging people to extend the area of cultivated land in the country and international trade through its dominions, the state performed basic economic functions in the Empire. But in all this the financial and political interests of the state were dominant. Within the social and political system they were living in Ottoman administrators could not have comprehended or seen the desirability of the dynamics and principles of the capitalist and mercantile economies developing in Western Europe. COUNT 4
QSN1 The development of what caused people to expand areas of cultivation in the Ottoman Empire? ANS1 commercial centres and routes QSN2 What dominated all economic and political interests? ANS2 interests of the state QSN3 What were the types of economies that were being developed in western Europe? ANS3 capitalist and mercantile economies QSN4 The expansion of international trade through the Empire was the result of what? ANS4 developing commercial centres and routes