Unit 3.1 - Land Empires: Expand (Day 1 - Contextualization of 1450-1750)

Unit 3.1 - Land Empires: Expand (Day 1 - Contextualization of 1450-1750)

Key Takeaways
A) Land empires and maritime empires faced the same problems but tried to solve them differently.

B) How did they expand?
Technological innovation: gunpowder weapons
Using conquered groups (but also appeasing them)
Control of trade routes

C.) Categories of Analysis for Unit 3: Land Empires by course theme
(how and why various land-based empires developed and expanded)