gunpowder empire

English

Etymology

Coined by Marshall G. S. Hodgson and William H. McNeill at the University of Chicago. Hodgson used the phrase as a title in The Venture of Islam (1974).

Noun

gunpowder empire (plural gunpowder empires)

Any of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires, which all had considerable military success using then-innovative firearms, especially cannon and small arms.

Translations

gunpowder empire

Dutch: buskruit rijk n
Finnish: ruutivaltakunta (fi)
Russian: порохова́я импе́рия f (poroxovája impérija)

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