1) I think that the authors decided to put the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals together all in chapter 28 for one main reason: They're Islamic empires. And they were around the same time period. I think when the textbook was being constructed they saw the three empires, said "Islamic Empires during the Origins of Global Interdependence", and decided they would be well off in a chapter together. It also probs helped to keep the chapter count to a nice neat 40 ;)
2) I think there were very good ups and very bad downs of this period.
The goods include a new found sense of cultural exchange, and discovery of the rest of the unknown world by literate societies at that point. This period was the push-off required to start the next 500 years of history.
The bads include an increased tension between Christianity and Islam, and the development of slavery in the New World. The tensions still continue to this day, and slavery was one of human kind's darkest hours, causing a sense of arrogance amongst some races of people and detracting from the betterment of other races.
Overall I feel this period hurt human relations and human thought more than helped. It is what I consider to be a period of newfound hatred towards other men.
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