Gunpowder Empire Definition

noun

Any of the Ottoman , Safavid and Mughal empires, which all had considerable military success using then-innovative firearms, especially cannon and small arms .

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Origin of Gunpowder Empire

  • Coined by Marshall G. S. Hodgson and William H. McNeill at the University of Chicago. Hodgson used the phrase as a title in The Venture of Islam (1974).

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