empires & encounters 1450-1750
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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 Mestizo-
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 encomienda system in Mesoamerica and
South America. Native used like serfs.
• 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 and priests as
bureaucrats.