Europe+1450+-+1750

Europe 1450 - 1750
=__ESPIRIT Chart: Mugha__=
 * E: Humayan inherited the newly found kingdom in 1530.**
 * S: Akbar was only 13 years old, and the Mughals enemies moved quickly to take advantage of what they saw as a very favorable turn of events.**
 * P: Under the rule of the Mughal dynasty, Islam reached the peak of its influence as a political and cultural force in south Asain history. Under Mughal emperors, as a blend of Hindu and Islamic civilizations produced some part of the world's most sublime architecture and art.**
 * I: A workaholic who seldom slept more than three hours a night Despitehis efforts, Akbar died a lonely and discouraged man.**
 * R: Despite the success of these politics in reconciling the Hindu mahority to Muslim rule, Akbar viewed tolerance as merely the first stage in a longer strategy to put an end to sectarian divisions in the subcontinent. Blending many elements of the many religions with which he was familiar, he invented a new faith, the Din-i-Ilahi, that he believed that could be used to Unite his Hindu and Muslim subjects.**
 * I: Like their counter parts in the Ottoman and Safavid empires, the Muslim and Hindu warrior aristocrats who formed the core of the supporters of the Mughal dynasty were granted peasant villages for their support.**
 * T: In addition to this administrative reforms, Akbar pushed for social changes that he believed would greatly benefit his subjects. An incident from the reign of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, who succeeded Shan Jahan, suggests just how fine the cloth in question was. Taj Mahal, became a symbol for India itself.**
 * __MAIN IDEA__: Mughals enemies moved quickly to take advantage of what they saw as a very favorable turn of events. Hindu and Islamic civilizations produced some part of the world's most sublime architecture and art. Blending many elements of the many religions with which he was familiar, he invented a new faith, the Din-i-Ilahi. Mughal dynasty were granted peasant villages for their support.**

__**ESPIRIT Chart: Ottomans**__
====**E: In the 13th and 14th cenrturies, the Ottomans built an empire in the eastern Mediterranean that rivaled the Abbasid imperium at its height. Though the Ottomans patterned much of their empire on the Ideas and institutions of earlier Muslim civilizations, in warfare, architecture, end engineering they carried Islamic civilization to new levels of attainment**==== Important destination for European traders Traded in cotton textiles Textiles had a large market in Britain || Akbar attempted to make living quarters for beggars and vagabonds Make limits on alcohol consumptions Akbar banned Sati: the burning of High Caste Hindu women This was was risky move as Rajput princes and warrior classes believed in Sati Akbar tried to provide self relief for women stuck in Perdah This would help aside special market days for women ||
 * S: Debilitating changes within the empire were occuring at a time when challenges from without were growing rapidly**
 * P: In the first years of the 16th century, the Safavids founded a dynsasty that conquered what is now Iran. Restoring Persia as a major center of political power and culturopral creativitym they also established it as one of the strongest and most enduring centers of Shi'ism within the Islamic world.**
 * I: On the sea, the Ottomans were eclipsed as early as the 16th century. The end of their dominance was presaged by their defeat by a combined Spanish and Venetian fleet at Lepanto in 1571.**
 * R: From the 17th century onward, the forces that underminded the empire from below were compounded by growing problems at the center of imperial administration**
 * I: The Ottoman state had been built o war and steady territorial expansion.**
 * T: Although the Ottomans had completely rebuilt their war fleet withinj a year after Lepanto and soon launched an assult on North Africa that preserved that area for Islam, their control of the eastern Mediterranean had been lost.**
 * __MAIN IDEA__: Safavids founded a synasty that conquered Iran. Ottomans were eclipsed as early as the 16th century. forces that underminded the empire from below were compounded by growing problems at the center of imperial administration. Ottomans had completely rebuilt their war fleet withinj a year after Lepanto and soon launched an assult on North Africa**
 * E || The Mughals traded with British Merchants, it was most an export relationship with high demand for textiles
 * S || **__MAIN IDEA:__ Akbar made a great effort to make living conditions for beggars and vagabonds better, put a limit on alcohol consumption, ban the burning on Hindu women which was a result of being risky with Rajput princes and warriors believing in Sati, and provided women in Perdah with self relief.**