Gunpowder Empires (Meghan Trainor's "Dear Future Husband" Parody) - 3.1 | AP World History Modern

Learn all about the major gunpowder empires! Parody Lyrics: Gunpowder empires Relied on firearms to conquer and control Started to expand from 1450 To 1750 Europe became more wealthy After the Bubonic Plague And Gutenberg’s new printing press increased literacy Monarchies centralized Controlled their citizens’ lives Bureaucracies, bu- bureaucracies Russia was quite confusing But got to do more trading Ivan the Terrible used gunpowder to kill the Mongols Took the Volga River Moved to Siberia Spread religion, East-East Orthodox China’s Ming Dynasty was overthrown by Manchus Established the new Qing Dynasty Had some conflicts with the West Empires that were Islam All used to come from Central Asia What’s more: they were all Muslim and Turkic Used gunpowder Tamerlane was violent Set the stage for new future empires He didn’t govern well so the economy literally fell! Ottomans were enduring First led by Mehmed II Invaded Byzantine with their super cool bronze cannons Established Istanbul Peaked with Suleiman I Military force, mil-military force After his death Europeans overcame them In the Battle of Lepanto Their empire began to decline Safavid Empire Was established by teenager Ismail Didn’t have a navy but land-based military was strong Abbas the Great Used Shi’a Islam as a unifier But Ottomans were Sunni So they clashed a lot Ineffectual leaders weakened the economy And Sunni rebels caused the empire’s decline Let’s head to India Where Tamerlane’s descendant Founded Mughal, Mughal Empire Babur’s grandson Akbar Made Mughal quite wealthy They got rich from overseas trade Divided people into castes Aurangzeb’s goal was Make the Mughal Empire great again But he drained their money And wrote up some bad policies These Muslim empires Didn’t reorganize their navies But Russia modernized and had an upgrade So they survived And that’s the whole gist of section 3.1! #apworld #apwh #MeghanTrainor #DearFutureHusband