What was it like to live in the Ottoman rural or urban environment during the 18th century? What were the population trends at the time? What were the risks of each? How did urban life contribute to the development of culture? What was the food culture of the Ottoman Empire at the time (primarily in the center, but also in the periphery)? How did disease and disaster affect life? How did local ecologies and infrastructure contribute to health or disease? What were the risks? The effects of health in the Empire? How did Evliet Chelebi's descriptions of life across the Ottoman Empire validate or invalidate general perceptions of Ottoman society? How did Islam fit into daily lives?