What differences and similarities existed between different empires around the world 1450-1750?
 Explain how rulers used religious methods to legitimize and consolidate their power in land empires from 1450 to 1750.
Explain how rulers used economic methods to legitimize and consolidate their power in land empires from 1450 to 1750.
Explain how rulers used political methods to legitimize and consolidate their power in land empires from 1450 to 1750.
Explain continuity and change within the various belief systems of land empires during the period from 1450 to 1750.
To what extent did politics affect religious change
To what extent did trade affect religious change
Explain changes in belief that weren't religious
Compare the methods by which various land empires increased their influence from 1450 to 1750.
Religious influence
Political Influence
Economic Influence
Empires Expand
State rivalries
Safavid-Mughal conflict
Songhai Empire's conflict with Morocco
Empires Administration
Bureaucratic elites or military professionals
Ottoman devshirme
Salaried samurai
Religious ideas
Mexica practice of human sacrifice
European notions of divine right
Songhai promotion of Islam
Art and monumental architecture
Qing imperial portraits
Incan sun temple of Cuzco
The mit'a labor system
Mughal mausolea and mosques
European palaces, such as Versailles
Tax-collection systems
Mughal zamindar tax collection
Ottoman tax farming
Mexica tribute lists
Ming practice of collecting taxes in hard currency