Imperial Recovery in 15th Cent
How did hierarchies/networks recover?
How does this shape modern age?
Why did recovery focus on emp bldg?
Response
Mongol khanates collapse
Imperialism in Inner Eurasian Circuit
Fighting vs nomads
Incorporate nomads
Both can lead to large emps
Modern geopol map takes shape
China
Mongol rule
Chinese style bureaucracy
Non-Chinese officials
Hist of Yuan Dynasty
White-washed hist
The Mongols are almost written out of it
Collapse
Inflation (bc govt printed too much $)
Yellow R flood
Pagei
Pop rebellions
Millenarianism
Ming Dynasty
Pol/mil N v cult/econ S
Competing
Consistently unified from the
China becomes “Chinese”
More identity
Treasure fleets (mentioned later)
Innovations
Weapons (gunpowder)
Cannons= good for siege, not for nomads …show more content…
Timurid Emp
Timur the Lame (Tamerlane
Predatory state - take lots of arts & stuff (they sorta force growth)
Bc of this, doesn’t last super long
Ottoman Emp (1299-1922)
Hybrid state
Byzantine statecraft
Islamic rel
Nomadic slave soldiers
Amazing bc
Survived industrialization
Incredibly successful
Rly were successors of Rome
Osman (1290-1326)
Mehmed the Conqueror (1432-1481)
Constantinople (1453) – capital
Istanbul (renamed Constantinople)
Capital
Large mosques
Transformation of Islamic world
Janissaries
Solution to probs w/ elites
Slaves (Christians from Balkans) raised in Turk/Islamic households
Strict code they follow (no marriage = no legit children = no need to pass on wealth, just depend on emperor for power/prestige)
Top bureaucrats/mil generals
Powerful w/ no social fun (no land, no passing things on)
Took over trade from Venetians
Had navy
Dominated Mediterranean
Surprisingly adaptable (able to have navy, arms)
Russia
Mongol Khanate
Called Golden Horde
Longest lasting
Indirect rule over Russian principalities
Princes of Muscovy
Worked for Mongols but still had his own power
Also claimed to help people
Loyal subject & leader of opposition ^
Muscovy
Est 1480
“Third Rome”
Orthodox Christianity
Heir of
How did hierarchies/networks recover?
How does this shape modern age?
Why did recovery focus on emp bldg?
Response
Mongol khanates collapse
Imperialism in Inner Eurasian Circuit
Fighting vs nomads
Incorporate nomads
Both can lead to large emps
Modern geopol map takes shape
China
Mongol rule
Chinese style bureaucracy
Non-Chinese officials
Hist of Yuan Dynasty
White-washed hist
The Mongols are almost written out of it
Collapse
Inflation (bc govt printed too much $)
Yellow R flood
Pagei
Pop rebellions
Millenarianism
Ming Dynasty
Pol/mil N v cult/econ S
Competing
Consistently unified from the
China becomes “Chinese”
More identity
Treasure fleets (mentioned later)
Innovations
Weapons (gunpowder)
Cannons= good for siege, not for nomads …show more content…
Timurid Emp
Timur the Lame (Tamerlane
Predatory state - take lots of arts & stuff (they sorta force growth)
Bc of this, doesn’t last super long
Ottoman Emp (1299-1922)
Hybrid state
Byzantine statecraft
Islamic rel
Nomadic slave soldiers
Amazing bc
Survived industrialization
Incredibly successful
Rly were successors of Rome
Osman (1290-1326)
Mehmed the Conqueror (1432-1481)
Constantinople (1453) – capital
Istanbul (renamed Constantinople)
Capital
Large mosques
Transformation of Islamic world
Janissaries
Solution to probs w/ elites
Slaves (Christians from Balkans) raised in Turk/Islamic households
Strict code they follow (no marriage = no legit children = no need to pass on wealth, just depend on emperor for power/prestige)
Top bureaucrats/mil generals
Powerful w/ no social fun (no land, no passing things on)
Took over trade from Venetians
Had navy
Dominated Mediterranean
Surprisingly adaptable (able to have navy, arms)
Russia
Mongol Khanate
Called Golden Horde
Longest lasting
Indirect rule over Russian principalities
Princes of Muscovy
Worked for Mongols but still had his own power
Also claimed to help people
Loyal subject & leader of opposition ^
Muscovy
Est 1480
“Third Rome”
Orthodox Christianity
Heir of