Dark Side History:The Gunpowder Empires; The Ottomans; Safavids & Mughals!

The Gunpowder Empires; the Ottoman Empire (1299-1922); the Safavid Empire (1501-1736) & the Mughal Empire (1526-1857), were great empires that dominated the Islamic world in the 16-17th centuries and sometimes onward, watch this video to find out more about their importance & shared history.
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[@theculturedjinni]

I hope you liked this video regarding these Gunpowder Empires that dominated the Islamicate world. Please, don't be afraid to comment or voice any questions as I love interacting with you my dear viewers and I will try to respond as quickly as possible to you. Also, please like, subscribe & push the bell icon as those actions do help this channel to grow!

[@wilsontheconqueror8101]

Great to see videos on these empire's in history! These are fascinating because this was a game changer of guns!

[@theculturedjinni]

💯% Yes, the gun shot old history dead and shot it into a new age of warfare and politics.

[@purplepunch4904]

pls cover the safavid shahs

[@theculturedjinni]

I will write it up on my to do list! 👍 (though it might be a while until I get to it as the to do list is quite long)

[@user-qt7nq5xl1m]

Another good video! I always enjoy your content. Once again learning something new each day you have assisted in my journey. About a week ago KZbin asked me if this channel was a good suggestion... Of course I answered that it was an excellent choice, informative and entertaining.

[@theculturedjinni]

It warms my heart reading this.👍

[@moukilmi1866]

Saadian sultanate was also a gunpowder empire tbh.

[@theculturedjinni]

Very much so 👍, and I actually plan to get around to them in the future, but I did jump over them as they are not quite on the same level of dominant and powerful as the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals. Also their rise to prominence is rather different and would require an entire video separately for them, as they are good example of a very different pattern of development that happened in the greater maghrib region in comparison to the mashriq and other areas of the Islamic world.

[@thehistoriographer]

The Japanese and Koreans were also gunpowder "empires" - granted, gunpowder shogunate and kingdom - via the infamous use of the arquebus.

[@theculturedjinni]

@@thehistoriographerArguably the entire era around this time was "adopt gunpowder or die" which often resulted in various forms of structures that could be called empires, but I would still say that the introduction of gunpowder had its biggest political ramifications in the Islamic world in regards to how it led to centralization and restructuring of political authority. Though this might just be a bit of a bias on my part considering that this is into my area of preferred history to focus upon.