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Ottomans obstructing trade routes?

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The story that the desire to find a sea route to India had something to do with the rise of the Ottoman empire, or more specifically, with the fall of Constantinople - which I even learned in school - is still commonly found on both wikipedia and elsewhere on the internet, yet after briefly researching several examples, none of them seems to cite a source for it. Indeed, it rather seems that spice trade through the Ottoman empire continued to flourish, as found e.g. in this article : Casale, Giancarlo. “The Ottoman Administration of the Spice Trade in the Sixteenth-Century Red Sea and Persian Gulf.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 49, no. 2, 2006, pp. 170–98. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25165138. Accessed 15 Sept. 2024. Directly arguing against the theory was already this article, which, however, is quite old and likely outdated in at least some respects: Lybyer, A. H. “The Ottoman Turks and the Routes of Oriental Trade.” The English Historical Review, vol. 30, no. 120, 1915, pp. 577–88. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/551296. Accessed 15 Sept. 2024. Mike F (talk) 19:02, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, it looks rather interesting. [Pepper Prices Before Da Gama] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2115514 Accessed 15 Jan 2025. It basically disproves the fact that the Ottomans obstructed the trade routes. Tj7755 (talk) 19:46, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]