Imperial Encounters By kevinhan_ Period: 1500 to 1542 King Afonso Kongo Period: 1502 to 1520 Moctezuma II Aztec Empire Period: 1520 to 1566 Suleiman the Magnificent Ottoman Empire Period: 1556 to 1605 Akbar the Great Mughal Empire Period: 1571 to 1629 Shah Abbas I Safavid Persia Period: 1585 to 1598 Toyotomi Hideyoshi Japan Period: 1603 to 1605 Tokugawa Ieyasu Japan Period: 1682 to 1725 Peter the Great Russian Empire Period: 1785 to 1795 Qianlong Qing Dynasty