Which of the following statements about the Ottoman Empire is NOT correct?

Question

The Ottoman Empire was a multicultural empire, with Turks, Greeks, Romanians, Arabs, and others in powerful positions.

As time went on, the Ottoman Empire became more technologically sophisticated compared to Western Europe.


The center of the Ottoman Empire was in Turkey, and at its height the Empire ruled over Greece, Serbia, Egypt, and most of the Arab world.

Other multi-ethnic empires, like the Austro-Hungarian empire, did not want Greeks and Serbs to revolt from the Ottomans.

Answer 1

I think it is the last one. I am 99% sure that all of the other ones are true.

Answer 2

The last one is certainly not correct as the Austro-Hungarian empire hed felt the ottoman threat, therefore it was in their best interest to support the other nations in their fight against the ottomans.
I would also argue the correctness of the other three statements!
no. 1: Multicultural empire - true, but the power was in the hands of the Turks, with a little help from well-to-do people of the other nations. In fact non-turks who had wanted to keep their wealth and prosper allied with the turks in order to keep their status.
no.2: The Ottoman empire became powerful and became a threat, but I doubt the technologal sophistication part of that statement.
no.3 And it ruled over the territories of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Albania (or better, the entire Balkan region). In fact it reached the boundaries of Austro-Hungaria.

Answer 3

Revolts were a part of the nationalism movements in Europe, so as an empire The Austro-Hungarian Empire never supported any of those movements.

The wrong answer is the second one, so West European countries became more technologically sophisticated.

Answer 4

The last paragraph is untrue.

I appreciate Jimmie's comments, but I think the Ottomans were technologically superior to the west until about the eighteenth century. Read "What went wrong" by Bernard Lewis.

Answer 5

The last one is wrong.