Compare And Contrast Islamic Empire And Qing Empire

Children are a valuable tool in building and strengthening empires. If you can teach a child your history and have them grow to respect it, they will optimistically fight for it and be united by it. Arguably the success or failure of a nation depends largely on how that nation deals with both its internal and external conflict. Focusing on these two premises, those who study history can evaluate cultures best on how they promoted culture and how the state dealt and interacted with outsider and minority populations. In this essay, we will compare and contrast these themes among the early Islamic Empire and the Qing Dynasty. Both of these empires took to promoting culture and a sense of tradition for their citizens beginning at childhood. Ranging from how they learned to read to letting children know where they and their families belonged on the social …show more content…
The Ottoman Empire used the devshirme as a way to promote Islam, preserve their cultural values, and it was a way to promote soci-economic mobility to the minority population. Adult women, men, girls, and boys who were not chosen from the Balkans were allowed to hold on to their faith and were not forced into assimilation like their sons or brothers had once reaped by the Sultan. Allowing the minority population to keep its identity while simultaneously picking at some of its parts in order to promote a central cultural identify was perhaps more inclusive than the education of children under the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty left fate little opportunity for the children of China. The Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty that preceded it practiced Confucianism, a philosophy built upon the premise of meeting people where they are