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AP World History Unit 3 Overview: Land-Based Empires (1450–1750)

AP World History Unit 3 Overview: Land-Based Empires (1450–1750)

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Explore the rise of the great land-based empires (1450–1750) — the Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal, Qing, and Songhai Empires — in this clear and engaging overview for AP World History: Modern students.

In this lesson, Mr. Hutchings explains how gunpowder, belief systems, and bureaucracy transformed empires across Afro-Eurasia. Learn how rulers like Mehmed II, Akbar, Shah Ismail, and Louis XIV built legitimacy through religion, art, and centralized power, while cities such as Istanbul, Isfahan, Delhi, and Beijing became centers of culture and administration.

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AP World History Unit 3 Overview: Land-Based Empires (1450–1750)

AP World History Unit 3 Overview: Land-Based Empires (1450–1750)

Produced, created, and written by Harold M. Hutchings