However, Jahangir's son and successor Shah Jahan pursued the goal of alliance with the Ottoman Empire. It is not surprising that in the eight years of life remaining to him he was to become perhaps the most feared and terrible of all the Ottoman sultans." Old habits die hard.

(Mental Floss) -- More and more cities and states around the country are banning smoking in public places, much to the chagrin of smokers. If he saw someone doing something he didn't approve of, he whipped out his blade and decapitated them. Mental Floss: 10 who made a fortune during the Great Depression. But when the Nazis fell, their bans fell with them . The Macmillan Company. Sure, his bodyguards had to work pretty hard to make sure their Sultan didn't get himself KIA wading into the middle of enemy formations Dynasty Warriors-style, but the rank-and-file troops naturally had to respect the fact that their leader was out there kicking ass and sleeping on the ground right along side them. [11] the borders per the outcome of the war is more or less the present border line between Turkey - Iraq and Iran. Mad Mustafa was completely broke and powerless to do anything about this, so the army revolted once again, removed him from power, put him back in power six months later, then overthrew him yet again, this time in favor of Ahmed's son Murad. It ended with his death from malaria less than two weeks later. The Persian commanders were marched through Istanbul in chains, and their rulers forced to sign a treaty that gave the Ottoman Empire control over Iraq, establishing a border between Persia and Turkey that would last until the end of World War I (over 280 years later!). Sultan Murad IV put emphasis on architecture and in his period many monuments were erected. Murad IV was born in Istanbul, the son of Sultan Ahmed I (r. 1603–17) and the ethnic Greek[1][2][3] Valide Kösem Sultan. When someone asked him about the double standard, he said, "Wine is such a devil that I have to protect my people by drinking all of it. These stiff penalties hung around until Peter the Great came to power in 1682. While the Ottoman Turkish Empire still ruled an expansive swath of Asia and Europe in the early 17th century, things had really started to go downhill since the good old days of Suleiman the Magnificent gleefully riding a babe-laden chariot from Ankara to Vienna on a freeway he'd paved with the corpses of dead European infantrymen and the bloody remnants of nonbelievers and infidels. Smokers today may not have it as tough as some have had puffing away through history. First, Ahmed died for some reason. Oxford University Press. Murad's swords. Bam. Press, 2010. Brother of Ayşe Sultan; Fatma Sultan; Gevherhan Sultan; Hanzade Sultan; Şehzade Suleiman and 6 others; Şehzade Mehmed; Burnaz Atike Sultan; Şehzade Kasım; Ibrahim I the Mad; Orchanas and Selimas « less Murad then outlawed coffee, smoking, and drinking in his empire, made these offenses all punishable by death, and closed every bar and coffee shop in Turkey claiming that they were places where people could meet up and talk shit about the government and play a lot of shitty music he wasn't in the mood to hear. Cambridge Univ.