Mr. Loya - PPT 3.2 - Empire Administration

By decentralizing authority to regional elites

By creating bureaucratic and military systems that ensured loyalty to the ruler

By abolishing religious influence in government

By limiting taxation and reducing state bureaucracy

The Ottoman Empire’s devshirme system

The Mexica (Aztec) practice of human sacrifice to demonstrate divine favor

The Songhai Empire’s expansion through trade networks

The Tokugawa shogunate’s isolationist policies

Increased autonomy for regional nobility

Greater centralization and reduced local independence

Decline in imperial authority

Collapse of tribute-based economies

They replaced all forms of taxation with voluntary trade.

They encouraged the autonomy of vassal states.

They ensured a steady flow of goods and labor from conquered regions to imperial centers.

They weakened central authority by empowering local elites.