Analyze the Administrative Techniques

Government

Three Islamic empires emerge, the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal, expanding from an Arabic-dominated Islamic world to include the Turkish and Persian-speaking populations.  The Ottomans became the most powerful because they occupied the strategic area between Europe and Asia, including former Byzantine territories. 

Increasingly, the Mughal emperors grew less interested in good governance and more interested in maintaining their lavish lifestyle and expensive court. This is very similar to the pattern that emerged in the Ottoman Empire, where the rulers grew increasingly disinterested in good governance and repeated the pattern of their predecessors, the Afghan Lodi Sultans. 

Maintaining the Mughal lifestyle meant higher taxes, from which the taxpayers derived no benefit. Little money was invested in agricultural or technological development. Economic prosperity was regarded as a threat to the security of the state, and so was discouraged (the more wealthy people could purchase arms and rebel). Local governors took advantage of this to virtually declare independence from the center, soon aided and abetted by the British and French.