Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Qing Dynasty and the Islamic Empires

Although the Qing dynasty promoted diversity in their culture and their religion they thought that diversity in their ethnic background was far enough. Ethnic diversity in their society wasn't tolerated by the Qing dynasty. They believed that the native Chinese couldn't mix with their Manchurian descent. Although the Qing dynasty set boundaries on the different diversity that came into their empire, they were much like the Ottoman empire. The Ottoman empire had created a millet which was a religous based community that was set across the Ottoman empire. The Qing Dynasty, much like the Ottoman empire, set communities around their empire seperating the Manchurians from the Chinese natives.
Although I am against the idea of not allowing mix breeding, I do believe that the Qing Dynasty was right not to follow the idea of taxing those that were not of their culture. The Ottoman empire thought that it was fitting to create Jizya, a tax for non-muslims in their empire. Both these ideas differ from each other but one thing is for sure, they both ended up being succesful in their reign.

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