Blake A. Taylor
HIST 1750
Exam 3
12.05.16

Exam 3:
The ways in which the three empires (Ottoman, Mexican, Inca) shaped the onset of colonization was through the dispersion of land based on the number of people that your country had. Simply put it was through the use of military and non-military migration. This meant that the more people you had the more land you could take by either assimilation or by force. Also each of the three major empires were based in different parts of the Americas. In the Americas the Aztec controlled 200,000 square miles and had over 20 million people and the Inca controlled 2500 square miles of land and had a substantially smaller number of people meaning that their prosperity was very dependent on the trade with the Aztec people in order to avoid war. However, the
Ottoman empire was a little different in the way they colonized their large country and plot of land.
The Ottoman Empire was based in Europe and controlled the majority of Europe including some of the middle east. The Ottoman would use their military might in order to take land and power they would give smaller countries the option to join them and if they refused they were whipped out. The
Ottoman empires most valuable trade was its military might in other words you traded with them the price they request or you wont get a chance to trade again. So to wrap this all up the more people you had meant more land which meant more people which meant bigger army which meant more money which meant better trade with other countries bigger and smaller then yours.