Blog #2

Chapter 13 talks about the Russian empire, the most transforming feature of the Russian Empire was the influx of Russian settlers. In 1720 700,000 Russians moved to siberia reducing the native Siberians to 30 percent of the population. This caused a loss of hunting grounds and their economy had to depend on Russian markets for grain, sugar, tea, tobacco, and alcohol. Also chapter thirteen talked about the Asian empires, the Asian empire did not invade america or another country like the europeans were doing. There invasions were more local the Chinese invaded Eurasia and central Asia to create the Mughal empire, bringing Hindu South Asia within a single Muslim ruled political system.Then later on in the chapter it talks about Muslims and Hindus who were both in the Mughal Empire, which is what i just taped about previously.