🕓 Time Period: 1450-1750
Chapters
3.1: European, East Asian, and Gunpowder Empires Expand3.2: Empires: Administrations3.3: Empires: Belief Systems3.4: Comparison of Land-Based EmpiresContext
- Focuses on the great big land empires of this era, such as:
- Songhai in West Africa
- Safavids in Persia
- Mughals in India
- Ottomans in Middle East, Eastern Europe, North Africa
- Manchus (Qing Dynasty) in China
- These empires were successful as they were able to effectively centralize their governments
- Land based empires at this time went hand in hand with religion