Mr. Loya - PPT 3.1 - Empires Expand

Gunpowder, cannons, and firearms

Steam engines and railroads

Printing press and paper

Ships and navigation tools

North Africa

Western Europe

Arabian Peninsula

India

Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal, Songhai

Roman, Byzantine, Mongol, Aztec

British, French, Spanish, Portuguese

Han, Tang, Song, Yuan

Ended European involvement in West African trade

Showed how gunpowder technology could overcome larger armies

Strengthened Songhai’s economic and cultural dominance

Resulted in the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into West Africa

A purely territorial dispute between European empires

A conflict rooted in religious and political differences between Sunni and Shia Islam

A short-lived maritime conflict in the Indian Ocean

A rebellion against Mongol rule

They allowed empires to conquer and control larger territories more effectively.

They led to the decline of all empires due to excessive violence.

They made empires focus only on trade and not on military conquest.

They caused empires to become isolated from each other.