Gunpowder empires: Term for Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires that used firearms to expand and maintain control.
How to apply it: Use gunpowder empires to compare how military technology reshaped political power in the early modern era.
Course: AP World History · Unit: Land-Based Empires
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