Hımm...mate, it is a different case with us.
When you look at ancient Greek, Egypt, Persian,Semite civilizations...they enjoyed a relatively easy life.
While they were building cities, writing poems, advancing on science... We were trying to survive in the harsh steppes of Central-Asia... constantly fighting against Chinese, Mongolians, Other Turkic Tribes.. we lived a nomadic life and couldn't settle..not because Turks were incapable but remaining stable in one place meant absolute death in that geography.
We have saying in Turkish "Ocağına darı ekmek" , in English "To plant panicum in house".... meaning "absolute destruction"
When Turks encountered an enemy settlement, they would kill all the humans, animals, plants...every living thing. Then they would reduce houses into pebble and mix them into soil. Then they would plant panicum on top of it and they would leave. So when someone arrived in the ex-setlement.. instead of a village they would see a field of panicum. And they would understand that settlement had met with the Turks wrath.
Fighting with the other Turkic tribes it was impossible for us to settle. So our ancestors spend centuries on horse backs...fighting, honing their military strategies, weaponary, warrior culture etc... At the mean time other civilizations were busy with founding civilization.
This was the difference between Turks and other ME nations.
Yeap, "Mimar" Sinan, "Architect" Sinan was the head architect of the Suleiman .
Mimar Sinan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
My real name is Sinan. It means "pointy end of an arrow or spear."