Unit 3: Land Based Empires

Essential Question

What differences and similarities existed between different empires around the world 1450-1750?

Objective Questions

1.  Explain how rulers used religious methods to legitimize and consolidate their power in land empires from 1450 to 1750.

2. Explain how rulers used economic methods to legitimize and consolidate their power in land empires from 1450 to 1750.

3. Explain how rulers used political methods to legitimize and consolidate their power in land empires from 1450 to 1750.

4. Explain continuity and change within the various belief systems of land empires during the period from 1450 to 1750.

   1. To what extent did politics affect religious change

   2. To what extent did trade affect religious change

   3. Explain changes in belief that weren't religious

5. Compare the methods by which various land empires increased their influence from 1450 to 1750.

   1. Religious influence

   2. Political Influence

   3. Economic Influence

Key Terms and Concepts

1. Empires Expand

   1. State rivalries

      1. Safavid-Mughal conflict

      2. Songhai Empire's conflict with Morocco

2. Empires Administration

   1. Bureaucratic elites or military professionals

      1. Ottoman devshirme

      2. Salaried samurai

   2. Religious ideas

      1. Mexica practice of human sacrifice

      2. European notions of divine right

      3. Songhai promotion of Islam

   3. Art and monumental architecture

      1. Qing imperial portraits

      2. Incan sun temple of Cuzco

         1. The mit'a labor system

      3. Mughal mausolea and mosques

      4. European palaces, such as Versailles

   4. Tax-collection systems

      1. Mughal zamindar tax collection

      2. Ottoman tax farming

      3. Mexica tribute lists

      4. Ming practice of collecting taxes in hard currency