Empires & Encounters

1450-1750

European Maritime Empires

Russian Empire

Qing/Manchu Empire

Mughal Empire

Ottoman Empire

THE LAND EMPIRES of

EURASIA

Russian Empire

Qing / Manchu Empire

Ottoman Empire

Mughal Empire

Russian Empire

QING / MANCHU DYNASTY

Qing/Manchu Dynasty of China

Mandated Hairstyle under the

Qing Emperors

Ottoman & Mughal Empires

Devshirme

EUROPEAN MARITIME

EMPIRES

Spanish Empire

Portuguese Empire

British Empire

French Empire

Dutch Empire

Spanish Empire 1600s

Casta Paintings

Spanish American Colonies

Casta is a 17th century term used in Spanish America, and refers to the institutionalized system of racial and social stratification and segregation based on a person's heritage.

Certain labels were used to identify classes of people with specific racial or ethnic heritage. Each of these castes was entitled to privileges or were restricted within the society because of its caste.

El Mestiso-

With Spanish and Native Parents

El Mulatto-

With African and Spanish

Parents

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

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.