 A common feature of all large regimes in the region during the period 1565 – 1760 is increased military fiscalism . This mode of creating income for the state consisted of extraction of tribute payments from local chiefs under threat of military action . It differed both from the more segmentary modes of preceding regimes and the more absolutist modes of succeeding ones — the latter achieved through direct tax collection from citizens . Another common feature of these regimes is the fragmentary historiography devoted to them , making broad generalizations difficult . 
