7. The Flow of Silver

. The Flow of Silver The Mughal Empire was among the large territorial empires in Asia that had managed to consolidate power and resources during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These empires were the Ming (China), Safavid (Iran) and Ottoman (Turkey). The political stability achieved by all these empires helped create vibrant networks of overland trade from China to the Mediterranean Sea. Voyages of discovery and the opening up of the New World resulted in a massive expansion of Asia’s (particularly India’s) trade with Europe. This resulted in a greater geographical diversity of India’s overseas trade as well as an Ü What difference would each of the systems of assessment and collection of revenue have made to the cultivator? Source Ü Why do you think the emperor insisted on a detailed survey? Cash or kind? Fig. . A silver rupya issued by Akbar (obverse and reverse)