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What European powers established empires in this period? Where were they? What was the nature of those empires? What were the major land based empires of the period? Where did these empires expand? Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, and the Dutch were the major European maritime empires. The Portuguese colonized Brazil, and some parts of Southeast Asia and Africa. The Dutch had much of Southeast Asia, the tip of Africa, and a small piece of the Americas. Spain had large holdings of parts of Latin America and some holdings in Africa and Southeast Asia. France had large parts of North America mostly in present day Canada. The British also had large parts in North America, had settler colonies in the Atlantic, and a colony in India. Trade was the main goal for the Europeans so they often took control of areas strategic to trade in the creation of trading post empires. The Muslim gunpowder empires were land based. The Ottoman Empire had expanded into the East Mediterranean, The Mughals were located in northern India, and the Safavids were in between them. maritime empires trading post empires What obstacles to empire building did empires confront, and how did they respond to those challenges? Rivalries were a major obstacle to empire building. There was a lot of competition over trade routes which resulted in piracy in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. Valuable goods like sugar were being traded in the Caribbean which led to struggles over these goods. In the Mediterranean region, there was intense rivalry between the Christian Europeans and the Muslim Ottomans, which caused piracy sponsored by both sides. Rivalries in continental Europe led to land based conflicts such as the Thirty Years War. The Thirty Years War was due to rivalries between the French and the Hapsburgs. There was also rivalry between the Shi’a Safavid Empire and the Sunni Ottoman Empire, which resulted in the Ottoman-Safavid War. Even though conflicts could lead to terrible consequences, there were several challenges from within empires that challenged expansion. In the Mughal Empire, Hindus often rebelled. China often had peasant revolts like the Taiping Rebellion Competition over trade routes such as piracy in the Caribbean State rivalries like the Thirty Years War or the Ottoman-Safavid War Local resistance like peasant uprisings
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