HIST1094 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: House Of Romanov, Transatlantic Crossing, Southeast Europe
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Big changes of the early modern period (1200-1750): nomadic invasions and formation of asian land empires. Several centuries long, nomadic people left the nomad life and settled down into different areas. Starting around 1200, waves of mongols and turks leave central asia and violently spread across asia and parts of europe. Eventual result: the formation of empire seither by nomads" descendants, or by people who could fight them off--creating new empires in much of. Ottomans - a turkish-run empire in the middle east, southeast. Found and ed by turks corm central asia who invaded. Anatolia in the 1000s, eventually destroying the byzantine. Safavids - a persian-run empire in iran, caucasus mountains, Centralized rule in imperial hands, rather than devolving ngkjlfdngjklsfdhgsjfd. Mughals - ruled most of india, pakistan and parts of afghanistan, and bangladesh. Qing dynasty - ruled over today"s china. Qing emperors chose to see themselves as chinese.
