Ottoman vs. Qing
The declines of the Ottoman and Qing Empires both had commonalities in their downfall such as corruption in the government, weak armies, and debt to the Europeans, though the main reasons for the collapse of the empires are alike the way that the problems developed are dissimilar. While both the Qing and the Ottoman were in completely separate locations both had government officials that abused their positions of power and brought down the economic standing of the empire as whole. Ottoman rule was at is peak during the sixteenth century and they stayed in that era, as did the Qing, the military advancements that had occurred were not followed by these empires causing them to be utterly defenseless in war. Finally due to the fact that the Ottoman and Qing had no way to protect themselves form the European, the British and French gave them loans or crops that force them into economical strife because they could not pay back the money they had borrowed. All of theses manipulations caused by their governments and the European nations drove to the outcome of two historic leaderships to disband.
Leaders of nations are designated to manage to country in a form that will allow all its aspects to run smoothly. The Ottoman and Qing had a crisis of power; all the officials took advantage of their titles. Both nations had a set system of taxes that were collected by the leaders of each county or area of the nation. In the Ottoman Empire the Janissaries and some nobles collect taxes from the citizens they had power over, yet those taxes collected were reserved for their own spending instead of helping the countries debt and military advancements. While in china a similar problem became evident, the farmers of china began to...
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In the Dynastic cycle, the Qin and Qing Dynasties of ancient China showed similar periods of Prosperity. These both dynasties succeed for a while, like they both had very strong armies which meant very good protection over China. Another similarity they had was following the ideas of confucianism the ideas from there were like order, respect, and leading by example. Built useful things such as repairing canals. These dynasties, Qin and Qing didn’t have everything in common they also had some differences like for instance Qin built the Great wall of China which protected them from other armies that tried to defeat them and to this very day the Great Wall of China still lives. He also added rice to the diet and he started to practice legalism
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