He apparently assumed that the same result would be true also for the curve y = axm, where a is any constant, and m any number positive or negative; but he discusses only the case of the parabola in which m = 2,
C H A P T E RT H R E EEmpires, States, and the New Worl.docxclairbycraft
C H A P T E R T H R E E
Empires, States, and the New World, 1500–1775
In the period from 1500 to 1775, many of the ways in which the world was or- ganized began to change. First and foremost, most parts of the world were drawn into regular, ongoing contact in ways that had never happened in the past. Where previously there had been several “worlds” in the world—the Chinese world, the Indian Ocean world, the Mediterranean world, and the Americas, as yet unknown to Europeans, Asians, or Africans—after 1500 two new links drew the entire globe into a single world for the first time. The voy- age of Christopher Columbus in 1492 opened up the New World and estab- lished new relations among the Americas, Europe, and Africa. But there was also a less well-known Pacific route linking the New World to China after the Spanish established a colony in the Philippines in 1571. These new linkages led to the exchange around the world of commodities, ideas, germs, foods, and people, in the process creating a dynamic but also very peculiar kind of New World, quite different from the Old (that is, Afro-Eurasia). We can eas- ily think of these sixteenth-century developments as the “first globalization.” A second large process was the continued growth and vitality of empires throughout Eurasia. In the sixteenth century, empires remained the most com- mon political form for bringing large parts of the earth under human control. Of all the various kinds of political and economic systems that humans have devised to draw sustenance from the land and to increase our numbers, by far the most successful was an empire. Why we are not now living in empires in- stead of nation–states is worth pondering. We aren’t because a new kind of state system developed in western Europe. To be sure, Spanish control of much of the New World initially gave them the resources to attempt to establish an
empire, but that attempt also elicited fierce resistance among other European states, both killing the prospects for an empire in Europe and launching a new kind of international political order.
The third major process concerns the growth of a system of sovereign states in Europe and the linkage between that process and war. In comparison with Asian empires, the European states appear to be small and rather fragile constructs that could not possibly compete with the larger empires. Their rulers were so poor that they constantly had to seek loans to maintain their militaries. They were so small that they did not have within their borders all the resources necessary for their own defense, and, had the Spanish succeeded in establishing an empire in Europe and eliminating interstate war, indepen- dent European states might not have developed at all. As it was, the system of European interstate war favored a particular kind of state that developed in England and France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, leading to conflict between those two for much of the eighteenth century.
C H A P T E RT H R E EEmpires, States, and the New Worl.docxclairbycraft
C H A P T E R T H R E E
Empires, States, and the New World, 1500–1775
In the period from 1500 to 1775, many of the ways in which the world was or- ganized began to change. First and foremost, most parts of the world were drawn into regular, ongoing contact in ways that had never happened in the past. Where previously there had been several “worlds” in the world—the Chinese world, the Indian Ocean world, the Mediterranean world, and the Americas, as yet unknown to Europeans, Asians, or Africans—after 1500 two new links drew the entire globe into a single world for the first time. The voy- age of Christopher Columbus in 1492 opened up the New World and estab- lished new relations among the Americas, Europe, and Africa. But there was also a less well-known Pacific route linking the New World to China after the Spanish established a colony in the Philippines in 1571. These new linkages led to the exchange around the world of commodities, ideas, germs, foods, and people, in the process creating a dynamic but also very peculiar kind of New World, quite different from the Old (that is, Afro-Eurasia). We can eas- ily think of these sixteenth-century developments as the “first globalization.” A second large process was the continued growth and vitality of empires throughout Eurasia. In the sixteenth century, empires remained the most com- mon political form for bringing large parts of the earth under human control. Of all the various kinds of political and economic systems that humans have devised to draw sustenance from the land and to increase our numbers, by far the most successful was an empire. Why we are not now living in empires in- stead of nation–states is worth pondering. We aren’t because a new kind of state system developed in western Europe. To be sure, Spanish control of much of the New World initially gave them the resources to attempt to establish an
empire, but that attempt also elicited fierce resistance among other European states, both killing the prospects for an empire in Europe and launching a new kind of international political order.
The third major process concerns the growth of a system of sovereign states in Europe and the linkage between that process and war. In comparison with Asian empires, the European states appear to be small and rather fragile constructs that could not possibly compete with the larger empires. Their rulers were so poor that they constantly had to seek loans to maintain their militaries. They were so small that they did not have within their borders all the resources necessary for their own defense, and, had the Spanish succeeded in establishing an empire in Europe and eliminating interstate war, indepen- dent European states might not have developed at all. As it was, the system of European interstate war favored a particular kind of state that developed in England and France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, leading to conflict between those two for much of the eighteenth century.
W4L4Mobile Communities The Huns and the MongolsIn a histo.docxmelbruce90096
W4L4
Mobile Communities: The Huns and the Mongols
In a history of the world over thousands of years, a simplified approach is crucial to getting a glimpse of global developments. Many textbooks look at the rise and fall of specific empires. Yet, the history of civilization is not merely the wave-like rise and fall of imperial power. There were Celtic peoples in Europe who lived outside of the Roman Empire who existed before the Roman occupation. Settlements in Africa, North and South America, and the Pacific Islands have long, complicated histories. Yet because they did not grow into over-large and influential imperial powerhouses, textbooks covering world history often neglect to mention them.
Perhaps a book that covered every single community with a unique collection of traditions and cultural mores would be impossibly long. Yet empires interacted with many peoples, and not all of those interactions favored the larger armies. The Han Dynasty of China reached out to consolidate power among settlements throughout Chinese borders. However, as people outside of China roamed around, seeking new areas for settlement and resources for their communities, they encountered the authority of the Han Dynasty. Fierce battles ensued. One protective approach taken by the Chinese Empire was to build the awesome 1500-mile-long Great Wall. Emperor Wen sent battalions along the wall to repel invading groups. This double approach successfully repelled the Xiognu people from the north. But who were they, and why were they willing to risk life and limb to come into Chinese territory?
Huns
The Xiognu People have many names. Also known as the Hsiung-nu and the Hun Guren, they are possibly best known as the Huns who eventually invaded the Roman Empire in the third and fourth centuries. They are depicted as nomads who tended flocks of sheep and other domesticated animals. Their work with animals allowed them to develop a strong tradition of artful horseback riding. As warriors, this skill with horses made them formidable foes and determined invaders. They prized actions of courage and bravery. Protecting each other was the goal of every responsible adult member of their group.
The Huns developed strong cultural ties through a tradition of wrought metals, jewelry, weapons, and tools for daily life. Commitment to their group was of extreme importance as this group traveled with their animals to new areas for feeding and grazing. There is some evidence that they created a dual-level society that prized egalitarian virtues among the able-bodied adults, both male and female, while also building on a slave class that performed menial tasks – much like the Greeks and Romans. As a nomadic society, though, the Huns left behind mixed evidence for their social organization and much of these theories are subject to debate among scholars. Even the basic argument that the Huns and the Xiognu were probably the same people cannot be proved for sure. We know that they both had simila.
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264 CHAPTER 9 Medieval Empires and Borderlands The Latin West.docxeugeniadean34240
264 CHAPTER 9 Medieval Empires and Borderlands: The Latin West
was followed by a period of anarchy as Europe faced
further incursions of hostile invaders. During the
eleventh century, however, the Latin West recov-
ered in dramatic fashion. By the end of the century
the Latin kingdoms were strong enough to engage
in a massive counterassault against Islam, in part in
defense of fellow Christians in Byzantium. These
campaigns against Islam, known as the Crusades,
produced a series of wars in the Middle East and
North Africa that continued throughout the Middle
Ages. But the ideals of the crusaders lasted well into
modern times, long after the active fighting ceased.
The transformations in this period raised this ques-
tion: How did Latin Christianity help strengthen
the new kingdoms of the Latin West so that they
were eventually able to deal effectively with both
barbarian invaders and Muslim rivals?
THE BIRTH OF LATIN
CHRISTENDOM
• H o w d i d L a t i n C h r i s t e n d o m — t h e new
k i n g d o m s of western E u r o p e — b u i l d o n
Rome's legal and governmental legacies
and h o w d i d C h r i s t i a n i t y spread i n these
new kingdoms ?
By the time the Roman Empire collapsed in the
West during the f i f t h century, numerous Germanic
tribes had settled in the lands of the former
empire. These tribes became the nucleus for the
new Latin Christian kingdoms that emerged by
750 (see M a p 9.1).
Germanic Kingdoms on Roman
Foundations
The new Germanic kingdoms of L a t i n Christen-
dom created a new kind of society. They bor-
rowed f r o m Roman law while establishing
government institutions, but they also relied on
their o w n traditional methods of rule. Three ele-
ments helped unify these kingdoms. First, i n the
Germanic kingdoms personal loyalty rather than
legal rights unified society. Kinship obligations to
a particular clan of blood relatives rather than
citizenship, as in the Roman Empire, defined a
person's place in society and his or her relation-
ship to rulers. Second, Christianity became the
dominant religion i n the kingdoms. The common
faith hnked rulers w i t h their subjects. A n d
t h i r d , L a t i n served as the language of worship,
learning, and diplomacy in these kingdoms.
German kingdoms based on Roman foundations
appeared in Anglo-Saxon England, Prankish
Gaul, Visigothic Spain, and Lombard Italy.
A N G I O - S A X O M ENGLAisSD Roman civilization
collapsed more completely i n Britain during the
f i f t h century than it did on the European conti-
nent, largely because of Britain's long distance
f r o m Rome and the small number of Romans
who had settled there. A b o u t 400, the Roman
economic and administrative infrastructure of
Britain fell apart, and the last Roman legions left
the island to fight on the continent. Raiders f r o m
the coast of the N o r t h Sea called Angles and
Saxons (historians referred to them as Anglo-
Saxons) took advantag.
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The Xiognu People have many names. Also known as the Hsiung-nu and the Hun Guren, they are possibly best known as the Huns who eventually invaded the Roman Empire in the third and fourth centuries. They are depicted as nomads who tended flocks of sheep and other domesticated animals. Their work with animals allowed them to develop a strong tradition of artful horseback riding. As warriors, this skill with horses made them formidable foes and determined invaders. They prized actions of courage and bravery. Protecting each other was the goal of every responsible adult member of their group.
The Huns developed strong cultural ties through a tradition of wrought metals, jewelry, weapons, and tools for daily life. Commitment to their group was of extreme importance as this group traveled with their animals to new areas for feeding and grazing. There is some evidence that they created a dual-level society that prized egalitarian virtues among the able-bodied adults, both male and female, while also building on a slave class that performed menial tasks – much like the Greeks and Romans. As a nomadic society, though, the Huns left behind mixed evidence for their social organization and much of these theories are subject to debate among scholars. Even the basic argument that the Huns and the Xiognu were probably the same people cannot be proved for sure. We know that they both had simila.
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was followed by a period of anarchy as Europe faced
further incursions of hostile invaders. During the
eleventh century, however, the Latin West recov-
ered in dramatic fashion. By the end of the century
the Latin kingdoms were strong enough to engage
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1. “I have conquered an
empire but I have not
been able to conquer
myself.”
Peter the Great
E.
Napp
2. At the same time as Western Europeans were
building empires in the Americas, the Russian
Empire was beginning to take shape
A small Russian state, centered on the city of
Moscow, was emerging after two centuries of
Mongol rule
That state soon conquered a number of
neighboring Russian-speaking cities
Located on the remote, cold, and heavily forested
eastern fringe of Christendom
But this Russian state eventually dominated the
vast tundra, forests, and grasslands of northern
Asia that lay to the south and east of Moscow
Russian expansion brought numerous Poles,
Germans, Ukrainians, Belorussians, and Baltic
peoples into the Russian Empire
E.
Napp
3. Russian attention was drawn first to the grasslands
south and east of the Russian heartland. The
nomadic pastoralists of the region, like the Mongols
before them, frequently raided Russian agricultural
lands and sold many of its people into slavery. The
concern for security was paramount for the
Russians..
E.
Napp
4. To the east across the vast expanse of Siberia,
Russian motives were different
The scattered, mostly hunting, gathering, and
herding peoples of forests and tundra posed no
threat
But the “soft gold” of the region with its fur-bearing
animals whose pelts were in great demand on the
world market attracted Russians
The enormous Russian Empire, stretching to the
Pacific, took shape in the three centuries between
1500 and 1800
Empire building was an extended process, involving
the Russian state and its officials as well as a
variety of private interests – merchants, hunters,
peasant agricultural settlers, churchmen, exiles,
criminals, and adventurers
E.
Napp
5. For the Russian migrants to these new lands, the
empire offered “economic and social improvements
over what they had known at home – from more
and better land to fewer lords and officials.”
E.
Napp
6. Of course, creating an empire meant conquest,
based on the precedent of Mongol domination
Modern weaponry and the organizational capacity
of a powerful state brought the steppes and Siberia
under Russian control
Russian authorities demanded an oath of
allegiance to the tsar and yasak or tribute paid in
cash or in kind
In Siberia, tribute meant enormous quantities of
furs, especially the extremely valuable sable
As in the Americas, devastating epidemics
accompanied conquest
In the more remote regions of Siberia, people had
little immunity to smallpox or measles
There was also pressure to convert to Christianity
E.
Napp
7. Tax breaks, exemptions from paying tribute, and the
promise of land or cash provided incentives for
conversion, while the destruction of many mosques
and the forced resettlement of Muslims added
pressures. Yet the Russian state did not pursue
conversion with the single-minded intensity that
Spanish authorities exercised in Latin America.
The tsarina Catherine the Great actually
established religious tolerance for Muslims in the
late eighteenth century.
E.
Napp
8. The most profoundly transforming feature of the
Russian Empire was the influx of Russian settlers
By the end of the eighteenth century, Russian
settlers overwhelmed native peoples
The loss of hunting grounds and pasturelands to
Russian agriculture rendered local people
dependent on Russian markets
Pressures to encourage pastoralists to settle
included the requirement to pay fees and to obtain
permission to cross agricultural lands
Intermarriage, prostitution, and sexual abuse
resulted in some mixed-race offspring, but these
were generally absorbed as Russians rather than
identified as distinctive communities, as happened
in Latin America
E.
Napp
9. Over the course of three centuries, both Siberia and
the steppes were incorporated into the Russian
state. Their native peoples were not driven into
reservations or eradicated as in the Americas.
Many of them were Russified, adopting the Russian
language and converting to Christianity, even as
their traditional ways of life – hunting and herding –
were much disrupted. The Russian Empire
represented a final triumph of an agrarian
civilization over the hunting societies of Siberia and
over the pastoral peoples of the grasslands.
E.
Napp
10. As it became a multiethnic empire, Russians
diminished as a proportion of the overall population,
although they remained politically dominant
Among the growing number of non-Russians in the
empire, Slavic-speaking Ukrainians and
Belorussians predominated
The wealth of empire – rich agricultural lands,
valuable furs, mineral deposits – played a major
role in making Russia one of the great powers of
Europe by the eighteenth century
This European and Christian state also became an
Asian power, bumping up against China, India,
Persia, and the Ottoman Empire
It was on the front lines of the encounter between
Christendom and the world of Islam
E.
Napp
11. The straddling of Asia and Europe was the source of
a long-standing identity problem that has troubled
educated Russians for 300 years. Was Russia a
backward European country, destined to follow the
lead of more highly developed Western European
societies or was it different, uniquely Slavic or even
Asia, shaped by its Mongol legacy and its status as
an Asian power? It is a question that Russians
have not completed answered even in the twenty-
first century.
E.
Napp
12. The sheer size of the Russian Empire, bordering on
virtually all of the great agrarian civilizations of outer
Eurasia, turned Russia into a highly militarized state
“A society organized for continuous warfare”
The size of empire also reinforced the highly
autocratic character of the Russian Empire because
such a huge state required a powerful monarchy to
hold its vast domains and highly diverse peoples
together
But the Russians acquired their empire under
different circumstances than did the Western
Europeans
The Spanish and British had conquered and
colonized the New World, an ocean away and
wholly unknown to them before 1492
E.
Napp
13. The Spanish and British acquired those empires
only after establishing themselves as distinct
European states. The Russians, on the other hand,
entered adjacent territories with which they had
long interacted, and they did so at the same time
that a modern Russian state was taking shape.
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14. The Russian Empire remained intact until the
collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991
So thorough was Russian colonization that Siberia
and much of the steppes remain still an integral part
of the Russian state
But many internal administrative regions, which
exercise a measure of autonomy, reflect the
continuing presence of some 160 non-Russian
peoples who were earlier incorporated into the
Russian Empire
Even as Europeans were building their empires in
the Americas and across Siberia, other imperial
projects were likewise under way
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15. Turko-Mongol invaders from Central Asia created
the Mughal Empire, bringing much of Hindu South
Asia within a single Muslim-ruled political system.
The Ottoman Empire brought Muslim rule to a
largely Christian population in southeastern Europe
and Turkish rule to largely Arab populations in North
Africa and the Middle East. But these empires
were regional rather than global in scope. Nor did
they introduce new diseases.
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16. While in the fifteenth century, China had declined
an opportunity to construct a maritime empire in the
Indian Ocean, as Zheng He’s massive fleet was
withdrawn and left to wither away, in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, China built
another kind of empire
China built an empire on its northern and western
frontiers that vastly enlarged the territorial size of
the country and incorporated a number of non-
Chinese peoples
The Chinese pushed deep into central Eurasia
Undertaking this imperial expansion was China’s
Qing, or Manchu dynasty (1644-1912)
Ironically, the Qing rulers were foreigners of
nomadic origin, hailing from Manchuria, north of the
Great Wall
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17. Having conquered China, the Qing rulers sought to
maintain their ethnic distinctiveness by forbidding
intermarriage between themselves and Chinese.
But their ruling elites mastered the Chinese
language and Confucian teachings and used
Chinese bureaucratic techniques to govern the
empire.
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18. For many centuries, the Chinese had interacted
with the nomadic peoples of present-day Mongolia,
Xinjiang, and Tibet
Trade, tribute, and warfare ensured that these
ecologically and culturally different worlds were well
known to each other, quite unlike the New World
“discoveries” of the Europeans
In the early modern era, Qing dynasty China
undertook an eighty-year military effort (1680-1760)
that brought these huge regions solidly and
permanently under Chinese control
It was largely security concerns that motivated this
aggressive posture
During the late seventeenth century, the creation of
a substantial state among western Mongols
(Zunghars) revived Chinese memories of conquest
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19. Chinese expansion was viewed as a defensive
necessity. The eastward movement of the Russian
Empire likewise appeared potentially threatening,
but this danger was revolved diplomatically in the
Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689), which marked the
boundary between Russia and China.
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20. Generally, Chinese or Qing officials did not seek to
assimilate local people into Chinese culture and
showed considerable respect for the Mongolian,
Tibetan, and Muslim cultures of the region
Chinese territory was greatly expanded
The borders of contemporary China are essentially
those created during the Qing dynasty
The people of Tibet and Xinjiang have retained their
old identities and have actively sought greater
autonomy or even independence
Central Asia was transformed from the
cosmopolitan crossroads of Eurasia hosting the Silk
Road trading network to an impoverished region
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21. Land-based commerce across Eurasia increasingly
took a backseat to oceanic trade. Incorporation into
the Russian and Chinese empires “eliminated
permanently as a major actor on the historical stage
the nomadic pastoralists, who had been the
strongest alternative to settled agricultural society
since the second millennium B.C.E.” It was the end
of a long era.
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22. Muslim in religion and Turkic in culture, claiming
descent from Chinggis Khan and Timur, the Mughal
conquests of much of India in the sixteenth century
provided India with a rare period of relative political
unity (1526-1707)
But Mughal emperors exercised a fragile control
over a diverse and fragmented subcontinent
The primary division in the empire was religious
The ruling dynasty and perhaps 20% of the
population were Muslims
The rest practiced some form of Hinduism
The Mughal ruler, Akbar (ruled 1556-1605), acted
deliberately to accommodate the Hindu majority
Akbar married several Hindu princesses
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23. Akbar imposed a policy of toleration. He removed
the special tax (jizya) on non-Muslims. Akbar went
so far as to create his own state cult, a religious
faith aimed at the Mughal elite. This cult drew on
Islam, Hinduism, and Zoroastrianism and
emphasized loyalty to the emperor himself. Akbar
and his immediate successors downplayed a
distinctly Islamic identity for the Mughal Empire in
favor of a cosmopolitan and hybrid Indian-Persian-
Turkic culture.
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24. But the Emperor Aurangzeb (1658-1707) reversed
Akbar’s policy of accommodation and sought to
impose Islamic supremacy
He forbade the Hindu practice of sati, in which a
widow followed her husband to death by throwing
herself on his funeral pyre. Some Hindu temples
were destroyed and the jizya was reimposed
Aurangzeb’s religious policies, combined with
intolerable demands for taxes to support his many
wars of expansion, antagonized Hindus and
prompted various protest movements
Opposition movements fatally fractured the Mughal
Empire and opened the way for a British takeover in
the second half of the eighteenth century
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25. Like the Mughal Empire, the Ottoman Empire was
the creation of Turkic warrior groups. Beginning
around 1300 from a base area in northwestern
Anatolia, the Ottoman Turks over the next three
centuries swept over much of the Middle East,
North Africa, and Southeastern Europe to create
the Islamic world’s most significant empire.
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26. A century-long conflict (1534-1639) between the
Ottoman Sunni Muslims and the Safavid followers
of Shia Islam expressed a deep and enduring
division within the Islamic world
As the Ottoman Empire expanded across Anatolia,
its largely Christian population converted in large
numbers to Islam
By 1453, Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks
and was renamed Istanbul
Yet in the Balkans, Muslims ruled over a large
Christian population but the scarcity of Turkish
settlers and the willingness of Ottoman authorities
to accommodate the region’s Christian churches
led to far less conversions
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27. Ottoman policies in dealing with Christian and
Jewish populations resembled Akbar’s policies
toward the Hindu majority of Mughal India. But the
Turkish process known as devshirme (the collecting
or gathering) which required Balkan Christian
communities to hand over a required quota of
young boys who were removed from their families,
required to learn Turkish, usually converted to
Islam, and trained for either civil administration or
military service in elite Janissary units while a
terrible blow for families who lost their children,
represented a means of upward mobility within the
Ottoman Empire.
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28. Even though the Ottomans were tolerant within
their borders, the empire represented an enormous
threat to Christendom
The seizure of Constantinople, the conquest of the
Balkans, Ottoman naval power in the
Mediterranean, and the siege of Vienna in 1529
and again in 1683 raised great concern in Europe
The “terror of the Turk” inspired fear across much of
Europe and placed Christendom on the defensive,
even as Europeans were expanding aggressively
across the Atlantic and Indian Ocean
Yet the French government on occasion found it
useful to ally with the Ottoman Empire against their
common enemy of Habsburg Austria
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29. And European merchants willingly violated a papal
ban on selling firearms to the Turks.
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30. STRAYER QUESTIONS
What motivated Russian empire building?
How did the Russian Empire transform the life of its
conquered people and of the Russian homeland
itself?
What were the major features of Chinese empire
building in the early modern era?
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31. How did Mughal attitudes and policies toward
Hindus change from the time of Akbar to that of
Aurangzeb?
In what ways was the Ottoman Empire important for
Europe in the early modern era?
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