The Land Empires are now established. So. How do you rule these massive, united chunks of land? Each one has it’s own unique way of functioning on a daily basis. Below are the people, means, systems, etc. that these Empires maintained power.

CLIP 0: OTTOMAN TAX FARMING (from ME!)

CLIP #1: HEIMLER HANDLES EARLY MODERN LAND BASED EMPIRES ADMINISTRATION

CLIP #1: VENICE & THE OTTOMANS (from CRASH COURSE WORLD HISTORY)

CLIP #2: SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT

CLIP #3: THE JANISSARIES (during the Fall of Constantinople)

CLIP #4: LIFE of a JANISSARY (Mahmed under Sultan Selim during the wars against the Safavids)

CLIP #5: HISTORY SUMMARIZED: OTTOMAN EMPIRE (this covers the entirety of the Empire; but it’s pretty great)

CLIP #6: OTTOMAN MINIATURES

CLIP #7: AZTEC SACRIFICE

CLIP #8: DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS

CLIP #9: QING IMPERIAL PORTRAITS (This is one minute but it covers the sale of one of Qianlong’s , who ruled after Kangxi, concubines)

CLIP #10: CORICANCHA (The Incan Sun Temple in Cuzco… The most important temple to the Incas… but the stupid Spanish destroyed most of it and built a convent on top of it… :(

CLIP #11: TAJ MAJAL

CLIP #12: PALACE of VERSAILLES (cool infographic of how the palace grew to its current state)

1. The True History of the Conquest of New Spain, 1576, Bernal Diaz del Castillo (AZTEC EMPIRE) (Use CTRL+F and search HEART)
2. The Chronicle of Peru, (this section discusses Coricancha/Curicancha) 1554, Cieza de Leon (INCAN EMPIRE)
3. The Turkish Devshirme, 1395 CE, Isadore Glabas, Bishop of Thessalonika (scroll down and you can see an excerpt…) (THESSALONIKIA, GREECE, OTTOMAN EMPIRE)
4. The Reciprocal and Mutual Duty Betwixt a Free King and His Natural Subjects, James VI of Scotland, later James I of England, 1598 (EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND)
5. The Permanent Settlement (This is about Zamindars working for the British, but this page gets into their history with the Mughals as well), 1793 (BENGAL, MUGHAL EMPIRE)

1. CORICANCHA (Incan Sun Temple in Cusco), c. 1200, (CUSCO, INCA EMPIRE)

2. OTTOMAN JANISSARY RECRUITMENT IN THE BALKANS, c. 1518, Ottoman Miniature (ISTANBUL, OTTOMAN EMPIRE)

3. PALACE of VERSAILLES, c. 1661, LOUIS XIV, (FRANCE)

4. BATTLE OF CHALDIRON, c. 1514, (CHEHEL SOTOUN PALACE ISFAHAN, SAFAVID EMPIRE)

5. TAJ MAHAL, 1653 (AGRA, MUGHAL EMPIRE)

1. Besides the Mongols, it had been since the Classical Period that this many large land empires coexisted.
2. They all use different variations of styles to rule over the masses of their peoples.
3. Some places used religion to justify their power (Divine Right in Europe, Shi’a Islam in Safavids, Islam in Songhai, Human Sacrifice for the Aztecs)
4. Others used monumental architecture to show that the rulers were legitimate(Versailles in France, Taj Mahal in the Mughal Empire, Coricancha in Incan Empire
5. They also collected taxs in different ways to bring in revenue… the Taj Mahal ain’t cheap. Versailles ain’t cheap.