Gunpowder Empires
These are another name for the gunpowder empires because they did not cross massive oceans.
What are land based empires?
The oceanic empires "discovered" these continents in the Age of Exploration.
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This is the most well known gunpowder empire which rose to power when it took Constantinople. Its first leader was Osman I.
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This explorer believed he had found India when he arrived in the shores of the Caribbean, and thus named the locals Indians.
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This gunpowder empire is located in modern day Iran, and was the least tolerant of other religions between the major gunpowder empires.
What is the Safavid empire?
This empire conquered massive amounts of lands in the Americas during the Age of Exploration, and destroyed the Aztec and Inca empires.
What is the Spanish empire?
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This empire was located in modern day India, and unlike the previous empire (the Dehli Sultanate), this empire was extremely tolerant of other religions, and even tried to start a new one which combined several together.
What is the Mughal empire?
This empire focused less on controlling people and land, and more controlling specific ports so they could control the trade and goods exchanged.
What is the Portuguese empire?
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Although the gunpowder empire makes someone think of guns, what what the best weapon used by many gunpowder empires?
What are siege weapons (cannons)?
This trade route between Africa, Europe and the Americas redefined where things were produced, but also involved massive human tragedy.
What is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
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