Steven Howe, in his book Empire, argues that an empire typically also has diverse ethnic, national, cultural, and religious elements under its power. If you combine these conceptualizations and then break them down into their component parts, you would likely come up with these features of empires: • extension of power over spaces in which they have no previous or legal control
• exertion of major control of economic, political, or cultural aspects of subjects
• extraction or accumulation of value as a result of domination
• control of diverse ethnic, national, cultural, and religious elements
Choose two of the following empires, and explain how well they fit with the concepts of empire outlined above.
1. Qing Dynasty
2. Ottoman Empire
3. Safavid Empire
4. Mughal Empire