World History Dbq Essay

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During the Age of Exploration Europeans hoped to subside the power of Islam and diminish its threat to the security of Europe by expanding and controlling global markets by reducing their market trade, although it was believed the Muslim world had entered a period of decline and turmoil with the collapse of the Abbasid Caliphate during the Era of the Mongols, on the contrary in the shadows of the Age of Exploration between the late Fifteenth and early Sixteenth century in the Middle East and South Asian subcontinent the rise of three great Muslim Empires, the Ottomans, the Safavids and the Mughals was occurring, the Ottoman empire being one of the strongest. (William J. Duiker and Jackson J. Spielvogel, World History, vol. 1,446).
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However (Duiker, World History, 453), the Ottoman empire had Janissaries, their non-Muslim elite army (Busbecq, “Letters”)and the exclusive use of women slaves to reproduce their royal heirs which made them unique from the Safavid and the Mughal empires (Duiker, World History,