Ways of the World:A Brief Global History

First Edition

CHAPTER 14Empires and Encounters

1450–1750

Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s

Robert W. Strayer

European Empires in the Americas• The European Advantage• The Great Dying• The Columbian Exchange

Comparing Colonial Societies

in the Americas• In the Lands of the Aztecs and the Incas• Colonies of Sugar• Settler Colonies in North America

The Steppes and Siberia:The Making of a Russian Empire

• Experiencing the Russian Empire• Russians and Empire

Asian Empires• Making China an Empire• Muslims and Hindus in the Mughal Empire• Muslims, Christians, and the Ottoman Empire

Chapter 14 Empires and Encounters, 1450–1750

• Map 14.1 European Colonial Empires in the Americas (p. 405)• Map 14.2 The Russian Empire (p. 418)• Map 14.3 The Ottoman Empire (p. 426)• Spot Map 14.1 China’s Qing Dynasty Empire (p. 422)• Spot Map 14.2 The Mughal Empire (p. 424)• The Mughal Empire (p. 402)• Plants and Animals of the Columbian Exchange (p. 408)• Mestizos (p. 411)• Plantation Life in the Caribbean (p. 413)• A Cossack Jail (p. 419)• The Ottoman Seige of Vienna, 1683 (p. 428)