During the seventeenth century all three empires showed the signs of weakening centralized political control . At the same time vast corruption among the bureaucracy and local aristocracy became evident . In the Safavid Empire which was a theocracy unlike the Ottoman and Mughal nations a new class of wealthy religious aristocrats owed everything to the state , but plundered it . Later sultans in the Ottoman Empire reduced to puppets dominated by Janissaries and viziers . Venality and corruption run through all level of...











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