In the centuries between 1350 and 1750, the history of the world finally becomes a coherent world history. New empires expand across all continents, while Western European seafarers transform the Atlantic into an inland sea and Islam dominates the trade systems from the Mediterranean to Southeast Asia. With the volume "World Empires and World Oceans," the third volume of the grand history of the world, which is planned to consist of a total of six volumes, is now available. China and Russia, the empires of the Ottomans, the Timurids, and Safavids in Central Asia and Iran, and the Mughal Empire in India display a political power and cultural brilliance that overshadow everything that the kingdoms of Europe had to offer up to that point. Spain and Portugal, the Netherlands, France, and Great Britain establish their empires, whose rise is primarily based on exploitation and enslavement.