Aim: How did Qing China compare with the Spanish Empire?
Comparing Three “Gunpowder Empires”
WHO’S MISSING FROM THIS MAP?
Eastern Tribal Lands, 1600
EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT AREAS, 1800
EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT AREAS, 1820
EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT AREAS, 1835
An expansion of powerful “civilized” society into tribal areas EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT AREAS, 1835
Russian Expansion from 1462
Qing Dynasty expansion 1644 - 1760
Nomadic societies fall, due to: Advanced military technology Centralization of state power New agricultural products that allowed farming in previously nomadic areas How do Americans treat the tribal peoples? The Russians and Chinese?