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Empire - Coggle Diagram
Empire
People
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Devshirme
Ottoman Empire practice of forcibly recruiting soldiers and bureaucrats from among the children of their Balkan Christian subjects.
janissaries
member of the elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops, bodyguards and the first modern standing army in Europe
Tolerance
In the Mughal empire akbar was a very tolerant ruler, In contrast aurangzeb was a lot less tolerant and included discriminatory practices to non muslims
Important for empire
trading, company monopolies, plantations, and colonies of settlement became staples
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In THE TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE they used social class hierarchy which organized the society into different levels.
THE TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE also created laws that forbade people from their empire to go abroad and anyone who returned from abroad was killed. They also prohibited the teaching of christianity. This shows how they wanted to keep the power.
government
fratricide
imparted the right of executing the male members of the dynasty to his son in order to prevent an interregnum
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Taxes/Money issues
Both in the Mughal and THE TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE taxes were very crucial for the empires well being. A organized taxation system was key
One example of issues was AURANGZEB and how he inherited a lot of debt and had to be strict and organized.
Definition: A major political unit having a territory of great extent or number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority
culturally diverse, societies which dominates the others
empire is a large political body which rules over territories outside its original borders. It has a central power or core territory--whose inhabitants usually continue to form the dominant ethnic or national group in the entire system
challenges
Empires were large and had many people speaking different languages, emperors ruled indirectly through intermediaries rather than to appointed officials.
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In most cases, the periphery has been acquired by conquest. But sometimes, especially in the medieval world, expansion comes about by the intermarriage of ruling families from two previously independent states