While the Western Europeans were creating empires in the Americas, the Russian Empire was beginning to form. Eventually the Russian Empire became the world's largest state. Because of Columbus, the state of Moscow conquered neighiboring Russian cities and involved them with expanding the territory. Moscow was originally under Mongol control until Moscow became the center of the Russian Empire.This empire became very successful and offered economic and social improvements. By the end of the 18th century, Russian settlers overwhelmed the native people. The Russians started to take over other local countries and populate the land with their own people. Because the Russians conquered different lands, the empire became very mulitethnic. Obviously, the Russians created an empire like the Western empires in terms of conquest, settlement, religious conversion, and feelings of superoprity.
China built an empire on the northern and western frontiers that enlarged the size of the country. The Chinese conquests along with the Russian Empire transformed Central Asia. China's domination sparked a clash of the nomadic pastoralists and settled farmers. The India Mughal Empire was a result of Central Asian warriors, who were Muslims in religion and Turkic in culture. The Nughal Empire was an encounter of two of the world's great religious traditions.
Along with the Mughal state, the Ottoman Empire was the result of Turkic warrior groups. The Ottoman state was converted from a small frontier to a powerful empire. This empire represented the growing of Tukic people becuase they now had a large number of Arabs. Like the Mughal Empire, the Ottoman Empire was a cross-cultural empire between the Islamic world and Christendom.
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