Compare and contrast the relative power of China, the Ottoman Empire and Europe in the pre-modern era. What made them relatively powerful or weak? How do the three countries political, social and economic systems compare at the beginning of our period? What were the various strengths and weaknesses of the three regions?

i believe it is capitalists.  

answer: both considered peasants valued members of society.

explanation: the ancient chinese and indian empires were large asian empires that had the same problems with other big empires, they had to work hard and sometimes fight in order to keep them united, they both relied heavily on their capacity to trade and to send strange and rare items to europe, and had the father as the head of the house hold in both societies, but they didn´t considered pleasants as valued members of their society, they were the bottom of the social pyramid in both of their societies.