Empires of the 1400's- 1800's had some major differences, but they also came
along with some major similarities. This time period brought major changes to the
Europe and American worlds. Once, two completely different places, now connected
through conquest the of the americas or Middle East. Their conquest spread throughout
land and allowed them to adopt and transform their ideas throughout the world and their
realities areas. While both empires spread their land, the ottomans were less open to
foreign ideas. Throughout the time period given the Spanish and ottomans built their
empires through political, social, and economic ideologies that are both, different and
similar in many aspects.
In both cases the rulers used religion
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From a political standpoint both governments tried to control the social norm in
their respective empires. Both empires had a state religion that was enforced by the
government. The Spanish used the "convert or die" ultimatum to enforce Christianity on
the general public. The ottomans were not as harsh but islam was still the major for in
politics. The Janissary class ruled politics in The Ottoman Empire, and were young boys
recruited to study Islam and its factors.
A many part of the economy in both empires was slavery. The Spanish empire
used slavery to farm sugar and other crops in the new world and the ottomans used
them for sexual slavery among other things. The Ottoman Empire boasted slaves that
were war captives to slaves that captured in routine raids in the north and east Africa
and Eastern Europe. Slavery was such a big factor in the economy that almost 20% of
the Ottoman population were slaves and it is estimated that nearly 514,000 slaves were
imported to the Spanish colonies and that is just from Africa. Another major factor in the
Spanish empire's economy was the precious metals shipped in from their colonies. The
ottomans found their own lucrative business in the way of stopping trade caravans,