AP World History: Modern / Unit 3: Land-Based Empires (c. 1450–1750)
3.2 Empires: Administration
Notes
Rulers used bureaucracies, taxes and military elites: the Ottoman devshirme (Christian boys trained as Janissaries), Mughal zamindars (tax collectors), Qing civil service exams, and Louis XIV's Versailles.
Practice
The devshirme system:
Ottoman Empire.
Mughal rulers collected taxes through:
Landholders.
Louis XIV used Versailles to:
Centralizing power.
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