HIST 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Manifest Destiny, Southeast Europe, The Queue
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Big fish eat little fish, or early modern eurasian empires. European states were beginning to create overseas empires. Eurasian empires were expanding territory but not overseas. The bigger they got the easier it was to get bigger still. The big fish: russia, qing (china), mughal (india), and ottoman (turkey, southeast europe, The manchus were a semi-nomadic people who were not technically chinese (from the area that is now northeast china) They were outsiders to china and very small compared to china. The mongols were another outsider group who took over china. They were excellent warriors and made excellent use as the horse and cannons in warfare. The manchu emperors adopted a lot from chinese culture and techniques of administration. The queue: originally a sign of chinese submission to manchu rule. A male hairstyle where the front part of the head is shaved and the back is braided.
