1. Aim: How did Qing China compare with the Spanish Empire?

2. Comparing Three “Gunpowder Empires”

3. WHO’S MISSING FROM THIS MAP?

4. Eastern Tribal Lands, 1600

5. EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT AREAS, 1800

6. EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT AREAS, 1820

7. EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT AREAS, 1835

8. An expansion of powerful “civilized” society into tribal areas
EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT AREAS, 1835

9. Russian Expansion from 1462

11. Qing Dynasty expansion 1644 - 1760

12. 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?