The Ottomans were the toward the end in a line of Turkish sultanates, each plummeted from the last. The Seljuks vanquished Persia, and afterward yearningly moved to Anatolia. They demonstrated again that mounted travelers can be a power that decimates the best-prepared armed forces. They squashed the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Manzikert. With half of their territory in unfriendly hands, the Byzantines lost portion of their exchange courses, tax land, and manpower.
