Aim: How did Qing China compare with the Spanish

Empire?

Comparing Three“Gunpowder Empires”

WHO’S MISSING FROM THIS MAP?

Eastern Tribal Lands, 1600

EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT AREAS, 1800

EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT AREAS, 1820

EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT AREAS, 1835

An expansion of powerful “civilized” society into tribal areas

EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT AREAS, 1835

Russian Expansion from 1462

Qing Dynasty

expansion 1644 - 1760

Nomadic societies fall, due to:

• Advanced military technology• Centralization of state power• New agricultural products that allowed farming

in previously nomadic areas

How do Americans treat the tribal peoples? The Russians and Chinese?