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====Impact of Did the Tanzimat==Reforms Fail?==The reforms had a real but limited impact on the Ottoman Empire. The education system was completely secularized. A new secular elite was created through this new education process in the schools. The economic reforms did change the nature of the Ottoman Economy and ended the religious regulation of the economy. The economic changes also brought a measure of prosperity to its citizens. This result was due to the increase in trade between the Turks and Europe. Because the Turks traded more with Europeans, they now had access to new technologies which helped to modernize the economy. While some Turks benefitted from the reforms, the impact of the reforms was fairly shallow. Many Still, many Ottomans did not reap any tangible rewards from the Tanzimat reforms.

It should be noted that while Banks were established and modern economic practices were introduced the majority for the population were not impacted upon. The rights of individual citizens were technically improved, but in reality, the Sultan still had almost unlimited power over his subjects. Furthermore, the Sultan remained the absolute rule of the Empire. The reforms had changed the Empire, but it had failed to modernize the realm. The Ottomans still had been unable to modernize not modernized their country, and they remained behind their European neighbors. Instead, to whom they continued to lose territory, in the Balkansto their European neighbors.