| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Effectively employing artillery and other firearms to expand territorially and maintain law and order among diverse populations, the Ming, Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid states have sometimes been called ???gunpowder empires.??? They unified such large areas of Afro-Eurasia--politically, economically, and culturally--that they contributed much to processes of globalization.
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