1) Gunpowder
The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires rose as great powers and expanded largely during the 16th century due to a great extent to the use of gunpowder weapons. Armies from the three empires acquired this new military technology which resulted very useful for their campaigns and for keeping the power.
2) Strong political leadership
The three empires experienced an era of expansion under the rule of strong emperors: Suleiman the Magnificent in the Ottoman Empire, Shah Abbas I in the Safavid Empire, and Akbar in the Mughal Empire. The three of them carried out political, legal, economic, and military reforms and led their empires during a time of cultural bloom and economic growth.
<span>Railroads created time zones, the growth of cities and the first truly national market.</span>
Rousseau was a great French philosopher, his contribution to the Enlightenment during the 17th century was that he wrote the Age of Enlightenment about politics, freedom.
I think Christopher Columbus should be considered a hero. because he risked his life to explore the unknown for his country tho he didn't have anything to do with finding America the fact that he was actually brave enough to go out there and explore was pretty brave. when I say he dident have anything to do with America read this \/
- His intentions weren't to discover the Americas (which were already discovered by Leif Ericcson and others), or to prove the Earth was round (Which has already been proven long ago, and despite popular belief, even the Bible says the Earth is round.)
- He thought that the Carribean was the Spice Islands. He eventually realized that this was the Americas, but even on his third visit, he still thought he was somewhere close to India or China.
- He only landed in the West Indies and in South America. He never sat foot on the continent of North America, and he has absolutely NOTHING TO DO WITH THE UNITED STATES!-from debate.org
The answer is (a) hieroglyphs
