READ Strayer, pg. 421-424.
WRITE a blog post comparing the Qing methods of dealing with diversity compared with the Islamic Empires.

Qing/Manchu dynasty: The Qing rulers sought to maintain their ethnic distinctiveness by forbidding intermarriage between themselves and Cinese. The Chinese have interacted with the nomadic peoples who inhabited the dry and lightly populated regions. The dry regions that the nomadic people lived are now Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet. To ensure that these culturally different worlds well known to each other, they had trade, tribute, and other interactions. During the late seventeenth century, the creation of the Zunghars, a state among the Mongols, revived Chinese memories of a Mongol conquest that occurred earlier. The eastward movement of the Russian Empire appeared threatening, but this danger was resolved diplomatically in the Treaty of Nerchinsk. The treaty occurred in 1689 and it marked the boundary between Russia and China. The Qing dynasty aslo campaigned against the Mongols that marked the evolution of China into a Central Asian empire. The Chinese or Qing officials did not seek to assimilate local people into Chinese culture and showed respect for Mongolia, Tibetan, and Muslim cultures. People of noble level were excused from taxes and manual labor was required for ordinary people. The Qing Dynasty was very respectful of the many diversities that lived in their region. They resolved problems diplomatically and were smart to treat every ethnicity fairly without excluding them.

Islamic Empires: The Islamic Empires respected other religions and ethnicities too because there were a majority of Christians in the Islamic Empires and they were not bothered very much. The they wanted people who were living in their regions to convert to Shi'ite Islam because they wanted to spread their religion around the world. All of the empires governed largely non-Muslim populations. They interacted with Hindu civiizations too. In India, the Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagara flourished in teh fifteenth century and borrowed architectual styles from the Muslims and employed Muslim mercenaries in its military forces. The Islamic empires actually dealt with the diversity in their regions well because they traded off with each other. India used many Muslim people and ideas for their own and the Muslims tried to convince the people with other religions to convert to Islam.