Comparing Diversity in the Qing Dynasty and Islamic Empires

The Qing Dynasty was a ruling period in China that began in 1644. The Qing rulers were of Manchurian descent, so before they controlled China, so they already had already been trading and spreading there culture into China. The Qing rulers encouraged diversity of religion, and language, but were determined to keep ethnic boundaries. The native Chinese were not even allowed to marry their Manchurian leaders for fear that the two ethnicities would combine. To ensure that ethnicities would remain separate, they did not assimilate the people that they had conquered, similar to the Ottoman Empire's use of millets. The Qing rulers were similar to the Mughal's under Akabar in that they encouraged the learning of Confucianism, and the blending of Manchurian and Chinese cultures. The Qing were not similar to the Safavids because they did allow there people to practice and learn about more then one religion, they did not standardize one faith as the official faith of the empire as the Safavids did.