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Jiang's collective label for the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals from roughly 1300 to 1700.
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gunpowder empires
Jiang's collective label for the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals from roughly 1300 to 1700.
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The major gunpowder empires are the Ottomans, Mughals, Safavids, and Ming China because each had centralized bureaucracy suited to early gunpowder warfare.
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From about 622 to 1700, Jiang says Islam dominated world history through successive Islamic powers, including the later gunpowder empires.
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"...With specialization, you need centralization, hierarchy, and bureaucracy. And that's what empires do very well. And the borderlands don't do this, okay? And that's..."
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"...their entire loyalty to the sultan, the king of the Ottoman Empire, okay? And these are professional soldiers who made effective, very effective use..."
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"Whereas the empire, because it's so big, it loses a lot of cohesion, okay? And again, Ibn Khudan is a major inspiration for the..."
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