ISLAMIC EMPIRES

RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES

• Ottoman Empire- Islamic, spread religion through conquests
• Mughals- Hindu & Muslim, time of peace spread through contagious diffusion
• Safavids- Twelver Shiism, other forms of religion were suppressed,
• spread religion through expansion

ADMINISTRATIVE TECHNIQUES

Early Authority and Empires went alongside the Steppe tradition. This meant that Emperors would do whatever they wanted. The Ottoman Sultans issued numerous legal edicts, the most significant of which was a series of laws created by Suleyman the Emperor. The Safavid and Mughal empires went to a greater extent to insert their religious dominance. Shah Ismail enforced and inserted his religion of Shiite onto the people of his Islamic Empire. Conflicts among family members created tension in Empires such as the Mughals. The Safavids also murdered to get to the throne. Ottoman kings would assign provinces to their sons, however after some time, the sons murdered each other to get to the throne. This was known as the Turko-Mongol style. The Ottomans, Mughals and Safavids also followed after the Empires of Chinggis Khan. They respected their wives and daughters as Chinggis Khan did. Women played a prominent role in both government and every day social life.

ECONOMIES

The ottoman formed major commercial and industrial companies. They controlled a lot of items that were being spread around the world. The Safavid used the Silk Road to trade and so they were the ones that was being traded in that part of the world. The Mughals major trade was gold and silver and high living standards, so the Mughals had control over how much people would trade in the world.