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Episode Summary PATREON Extra The Empire's Elite "Origins" Part 1

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• A brief meditative practice involving imagining history
• The term, word, of Janissary and how it relates to Yeŋiçeri
• Janissaries trace their origins to Sultan Murad I (although Sultan Orhan may have had something to do with them as well)
• Christian captives first Janissaries
• Training regimen established under Sultan Bayezid I
• Numbers, and training in detail
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Music CREDIT:

"Big Drumming" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"Clash Defiant" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/