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It extended over 3 not small but major continents and they needed that land to stretch out and they also needed resources.
The Ottoman dynasty continued to expand for several generations, controlling much of southeastern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa at its peak.
The Ottomans exported luxury goods like silk, furs, tobacco, and spices, and had a growing trade in cotton. From Europe, the Ottomans imported goods that they did not make for themselves: woolen cloth, glassware, and some specially manufactured goods like medicine, gunpowder, and clocks.
The Ottoman Empire was also an agrarian economy, labor scarce, land rich, and capital-poor. The majority of the population earned their living from small family holdings and this contributed to around 40 percent of taxes for the empire directly as well as indirectly through customs revenues on exports.
They had all of these things in them continents.
