English Explanatory Dictionary

gunpowder empire

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

gunpowder empire gunpowder empires

Etymology

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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