HST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ottoman Hungary, Religious Intolerance, Mughal Empire
Document Summary
Asian dynasties, global trade, power, and culture: the ottoman, safavid, and mughal empires. Economic consequences of global trade in the muslim empires, 1500-1750. Participation in global trade with mixed consequences. Overall: world trade, a secondary concern, major economic, social, political, cultural transformations were the result of internal forces. Uei(cid:373)a(cid:374), (cid:862)the mag(cid:374)ifice(cid:374)t(cid:863) (cid:894)r. (cid:1005)5(cid:1006)(cid:1004)-1566: height of territorial expansion, holy roman empire. Mesopotamia: military and religions conflicts with the safavid. Lure of silver: shift to commercial crops (cotton, tobacco) Illegal exports (wheat, copper, wool, silk, spices: silver loans (administrative and military expenses) Less prosperous and dynamic than ottoman and mughal empires. Foreign trade: silk fabrics, state monopoly. Religious intolerance: shia islam, state religion since 1501, forced conversion of sunnis. Religious synthesis: islam + hindu, zoroastrian, christian, sikh influences. Sikhism, or when neither islam nor hindu suffices. Reason for the decline of muslim empires in asia. Participation in global trade: prosperity; military campaigns; court grandeur; public works projects.
