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Identify and explain how the Ottoman Empire used the multi-ethnic population in its empire to energize its trade

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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 special manufactured goods like medicine, gunpowder and clocks.
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