gunpowder empire

Etymology
Coined by Marshall G. S. Hodgson and William H. McNeill at the University of Chicago. Hodgson used the phrase as a title in The Venture of Islam (1974).

Noun

 * 1) Any of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires, which all had considerable military success using then-innovative firearms, especially cannon and small arms.

Translations

 * Dutch: buskruitrijk
 * Finnish:
 * Russian: порохова́я импе́рия