What were the connections between political strength and economic prosperity in the eighteenth century Asian empires?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Connections between political strength and economic prosperity
1. large states that had taken shape in Southeast Asia stopped expanding or
broke up
a. kings complained that "officials and monasteries" usurped power
2. Burma first shrank, then split, and finally collapsed in 1752, after long civil
wars between ever more-powerful provincial rulers
3. holy wars on behalf of Buddhism
4. Thai Empire shattered among five small states
5. Vietnam also fell apart in the chaos of peasant rebellions
6. economic changes caused trade revenues to fall
7. European imperialism in Asia was turning to territorial conquest
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