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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
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- Growing animosity between Janissary and cavalry units
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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/
