As a Turkish guy it always baffled me that the history books I got in high school never talked about the Ottoman Empire, they always just skip over the subject and talk about France, Roman Empire and about what the USA did in Vietnam, I live in Holland btw.
The Ottoman Empire was in it's prime a huuuuuge Empire but we never get to know anything about it unless you Google it, I can understand that France had it's Renaissance time and Holland was really great with it's trade routes and such but why won't they talk about the Ottoman Empire?
It could be because I'm Turkish and want to learn about it that I ask about it but in High School I always wondered about this.
You might be just a slight bit biased in your thinking about this. I'm Turkish myself, and I never felt like the Ottoman Empire was missing or getting less than its share of my history lessons. It was even focused on as a "Gunpowder Empire" as an entire unit, along with the Safavids and Mughals.