1. what reasons and motives underlay creation of the russian empire? 2. how did the russian empire transform the lives of people it conquered? how did creation of the empire affect the nature of the russian state? 3. what may have been the reasons behind the change in mughal religious policies from akbar the great to aurangzeb? 4. how did the ottoman empire manage religious diversity within its borders to administer the state? how did the lives of 5. how did islam and creation of the empire impact the lives of women in the ottoman empire? 6. in what ways did the ottoman empire influence the lives of christians within its borders as well as history of european christendom?