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Estevan Bartoletti ∙
Europeans had to find new trade routes to the East because the Ottoman Empire controlled and taxed existing routes.
Countries took over by the ottoman empire in the 19th century include Moldavia, Somalia, Hungary, Egypt,
The Ottoman Empire and Venice controlled existing trade routes to Asia and made European merchants pay taxes.
The Ming and Qing dynasties practiced neo-Confucianism, while the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires practiced Islam
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