Ap World History Compare And Contrast Essay

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11. Compare the European kingdoms of Great Britain, France, and Spain with the empires of the Ottomans, Mughals, and the Ming in the period from 1450-1750 looking from the beginning to the end of the period. Analyze political and economic systems, cultural and intellectual development, and technological progress.

Kingdoms Differences Differences Empires
Great Britain • Politically, Great Britain was stabilized through the English Reformation and was politically powerful through imperialism
• Economically Great Britain prospered as the Industrial Revolution brought wealth and made the economy urbanized as more people worked in factories and mass produced
• Culturally, they spread their influence throughout their colonial possessions such as India, China, and African states
• Intellectually
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• Economically, the Europeans were just there as trading companies, but after the Sepoy rebellion, the Europeans took over as colonial power, taking complete control of their economy and supplied, forbidding them from using their own products unless bought through the British
• Culturally the Indian infrastructure was improved, but the Indians were treated as second class citizens, the few educated elite wee however able to become more powerful in political affairs by the end of the period
• Technologically, they were no very prosperous, for they were starving from the Europeans’ monopolies on Indian products and plantations took away from families’ lands used to cultivate food for existence Mughals
Spain • Politically, Spain was stable, since they were able to imperialize, but they weakened after the rebellion of their colonies and the Napoleonic Wars
• Economically, Spain prospered from their cash crops, silver mining, and plantation crops from their American colonies
• Culturally, they blended with the indigenous population to form new classes and ethnicities such as mulattos and mestizos
• Intellectually, the peoples were educated through the church’s missionary