AP World History: Modern / Unit 3: Land-Based Empires (c. 1450–1750)
3.4 Comparison in Land-Based Empires
Notes
Compare how gunpowder empires gained and kept power: militaries, bureaucracies, religion, monumental architecture (Taj Mahal, Versailles), and tax systems.
Practice
The Taj Mahal is an example of:
Mughal India.
Both the Ottomans and the Mughals:
Multiethnic empires.
Gunpowder empires gained power mainly through:
Military technology.
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