2021
Rise of the Ottoman Empire
TED-Ed
In the late 13th century, Osman I established a small principality sandwiched between a crumbling Byzantine Empire and a weakened Sultanate of the Seljuk of Rum, in what is now Turkey. In just a few generations, this territory had outmaneuvered more powerful neighbors to become the vast Ottoman Empire. What enabled its rapid rise? Mostafa Minawi details the early days of the Ottomans.
Educator: Mostafa Minawi
Director: Serin Inan
Narrator: Jack Cutmore-Scott
Director of Production: Gerta Xhelo
Editorial Director: Alex Rosenthal
Producer: Bethany Cutmore-Scott
Editorial Producer: Elizabeth Cox
Script Editor: Eden Girma
Storyboard Artist: Gürkan Gürler
Art Director: Gürkan Gürler
Animators: Tuncay Çetin, Gürkan Gürler
Layout Artists: Can Tugrul, Gürkan Gürler
Composer and Sound Designer: Deniz Dogançay
Executive Creative Director: Logan Smalley
The biggest mistakes in mapmaking history
Client:
TED-Ed
Year:
2022
For thousands of years, people made both functional maps and what are known as cosmographies, illustrating the earth and its position in the cosmos, often including constellations, gods, and mythic locations. These maps were meant to depict the world's geography, but weren't necessarily useful for navigation and contained some glaring mistakes. Kayla Wolf shares mapmaking’s biggest blunders.
Lesson by Kayla Wolf
Directed by Serin Inan
Narrator: Alexandra Panzer
Composers: Cem Misirlioglu & David Coltun
Sound Designer: Cem Misirlioglu
Storyboard Artist: Gürkan Gürler
Art Director: Gürkan Gürler
Animators: İrem Usta, Gürkan Gürler
Compositor: Serin Inan
Executive Creative Director: Logan Smalley
Produced by: Gerta Xhelo, Bethany Cutmore-Scott
Editorial Director: Alex Rosenthal
Editorial Producer: Elizabeth Gox
