Asian Empires & the Shogunate
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"...Across Eurasia, the interconnections of the human web favored portable religions at the expense of local ones. Portal religions, those like Christianity; Islam; Buddhism – religious that travel; religions that have missionaries and proselytizers ..."
Key Terms
- Gunpowder Empires (Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal)
- Tokugawa Shogunate
- Orientalism
- Sati
Guided Viewing Questions
- In what ways did Japan and China isolate themselves from the outside world during the early modern period?
- How was Japan better suited to deal with the West than China by the nineteenth century?
- What role did religion play in the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Empires?
- Why did these empires decline in the early modern period?