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 * ==== Topic Sentence ==== || ==== Though the Islamic empires during the 14th to 16th century boasted incomparable power, they did not come to dominate the modern world as the Europe did because the Islamic national rulers lacked leadership, because the Islamic empires didn't undergo a scientific revolution, and because Islamic emperors suffered from internal conflicts within their empires. ==== ||
 * ==== Elaboration ==== || ====Between 14th century and 16th century, multiple Islamic empires including the Ottoman empire in modern day Turkey who conquered all the way from the Egypt to Hungary, the Safavid empire in modern day Iran who achieved greatly in the fields of art, and the Mughal empire in modern day India and Tibet who flourished their culture and left many historically notable artifacts including the Taj Mahal held greatest political influences in the world history. However, all of the mentioned empires fell back from the history as the leaders of each empires made crucial mistakes that the European leaders, who came to dominate the modern world, did not make.==== ||
 * ==== Examples/Evidence ==== || # ====Predestined national leaders in the Ottoman empire who lacked leaderships caused by Saleyman's imprisonment and murder to his own heirs====
 * 1) ====Lack of scientific revolution shown through Arangzeb of Mughal's enforcements on strict Islamic rules====
 * 2) ====Internal conflicts shown through Nadir Shah's assassination by one of his own troop==== ||
 * ==== Explanation/analysis ==== || # ====Imprisoning and murdering the ablest potential leaders was a major mistake Suleyman, the greatest leader of the Ottoman empire, committed as it caused the politically weakest leader to be in power of the Ottoman empire. The result of uneducated and inexperienced leadership was fall of empire.====
 * 1) Arangzeb of Mughal empire caused split of his own empire by strictly enforcing the religion and the laws of Islam. As one of the main reason the Ottoman empire could prosper was because the political opportunity was open to everyone regardless of the religious background, the Mughal empire under Arangzeb's rule lost loyalty to the central state and experienced separation between the states.
 * 2) Nadir Shah of the Safavid empire, though he had demonstrated a great competence in militarily conquering outward lands, showed lack of ability to satisfy his own people. His cruel way of governing his people and leading his military troops led to his death caused by his own troop. ||
 * ==== Link Sentence ==== || ====Though the Islamic empires prospered greatly, the leaders' errors destroyed their own prosperity, and let the European countries to take the hegemony among the world. While the Ottoman emperor weakened the power of the next generation's political leaders, Europeans tool the political power away from the original church leaders to the ablest politicians. While the Mughal emperor enforced his religion's teaching to his people, the Europeans experienced opening of the minds and scientific revolution which led the people to value the scientifically proven knowledge over the teachings of the bible. Finally, the Safavid emperor wasted time, money and his own life on internal conflicts while the European nations focused heavily on expanding outwards.==== ||