Empires & Encounters1450-1750

European Maritime Empires

Russian Empire

Qing/Manchu Empire

Mughal Empire

Ottoman Empire

Comparative Essay Thurs 1-16• Analyze the similarities and differences in

how two empires conquered and controlled their empires.

• Analyze the similarities and differences in the results of two empires.

THE LAND EMPIRES of EURASIA

Russian Empire Qing / Manchu Empire Ottoman Empire Mughal Empire

Russian Empire

QING / MANCHU DYNASTY

Qing/Manchu Dynasty of China

Ottoman & Mughal Empires

EUROPEAN MARITIME EMPIRES

Spanish Empire Portuguese Empire British Empire French Empire Dutch Empire

Spanish Empire 1600s

Portuguese Empire 1600s

Sugar Colonies

Settler Colonies

One RESULT of European Maritime Empires being built…The Columbian Exchange – the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia

Comparative Essay Thurs 1-16• Analyze the similarities and differences in

how two empires conquered and controlled their empires.

• Analyze the similarities and differences in the results of two empires.

SIMILARITIES in these empires

1450-1750

As these empires were built:• The rulers worked to control ethnic &

religious groups in ways that utilized their economic contributions while limiting their ability to challenge the authority of the government

• Mughal treatment of Hindu subjects• Chinese treatment of SE Asian merchants• European promotion of the African slave trade

• Governments of these empires used bureaucrats and professional military to maintain centralized control over people & resources – (and limit the power of the other nobles).

• Ottoman devshirme system & janissaries• Chinese scholar officials• European use of merchants or priests as

bureaucrats.