13. Isfahan: Safavid capital under Abbas the Great; planned city laid out according to
13. Isfahan: Safavid capital under Abbas the Great; planned city laid out according to
Seljuk Turks- Central Asian nomadic invaders. Sunnis who ruled in name of Abbasid caliphs from 11th century CE…
Sail al-Din began a militant campaign to purify and reform Islam and spread Muslim teachings among the Turkic tribes and the region.…
Shah Ismail founded the Safavid Dynasty. The Safavids was a mixed society like the Ottoman Empire; majority of the population were Iranian. They used the Shi’ite faith, and Shi’ism was declared the state religion. Like the Ottoman’s sultan, the Safavids had their shahs who would check up on their people. This empire was not as wealthy as the Ottomans and the Mughals. Their greatest area of productivity was in textiles.…
The Ottoman Empire is the Turkish and Islamic state that ruled from 1299-1922. It is one of the most important and powerful Muslim Empires. The founder of the Ottoman Empire is Osman I. At first it was only a tribe and consisted of little followers but in a very short time it grew into being an Empire. Great architectural, military, and administrative accomplishments have taken place in the Ottoman Empire. The reason that this was such an powerful and long lasting Empire was because of the Sultan was not the only one ruling and not the only one making decisions. The Empire was not run by the personal choices and wants of the Sultan. The Ottoman Sultans were greatly affected by the institutions that surrounded them. Some of them being the wazirs, qadis, Shaykh al-Islam, janissaries and the women of the harem. The Sultan was of course at the top of the hierarchy but he made decisions n accordance with the approval of…
Shah Abbas the Great – Safavid ruler 1587-1629; extended Safavid domain to greatest extent; created slave regiments based on captured Russians, who monopolized firearms within Safavid armies; incorporated Western military technology…
Document 1: SAFAVID “great liking for warfare and weapons of war…fine soldier and very skilled, and his men so dexterous—use of muskets””realm extended and soldiers receive pay all year” Paul Simon, missionary to Safavid Court of Shah Abbas The Great in the city of Isfaha, 1605—visitor to Safavid court, therefore perhaps biased in treatment of soldiers and mencourt has only the best of the best. Plus biased towards Europe, therefore men are “little behind our men in Europe.” success of the empire was its treatment of the recruited slave youth into the army and bureaucracybackbone of army and loyal to Abbas I.…
-Largest-Ottoman from N Africa to S Russia; Safavid dynasty to the E; Mughals in Delhi region of Ganges plain…
Under Suleiman, popularly known as "the Magnificent" or "the Lawmaker” the Ottoman Empire reached its peak in its military and political power. Suleiman's armies conquered Hungary, over which the Ottomans maintained control for over 150 years, and they advanced as far west as Vienna, threatening the Habsburgs. To the east, the Ottoman forces took control of Iraq from the Safavids of Iran. In the Mediterranean, their navy captured all the main North African ports, and for a time the Ottoman fleet completely dominated the sea. For a time the Ottoman fleet completely dominated the sea. By the end of Suleiman's reign, the Ottoman Empire extended over a great portion of Europe, Asia, and Africa.…
The rise of the Ottoman Empire, with sultan Osman I, from around 1299, was coincident with a series of opportunistic events. Important amongst these was a change in the expansionist Mongol empire in the East5. In the west was the collapsing Byzantine Empire, of which Turkey was or had been a part and desired to be free. In an interesting turn of events many aspects of Byzantine rule were incorporated by the Ottoman.…
His army captured Rhodes, Buda, and Yama. Suleiman was then known as the greatest leader of the army. He hired a designer to redesign the castle to make it look more European. Suleiman had gotten married and this triggered many people of the city.…
Overtime, the Ottoman Empire would continue to progress to become one of the most powerful states in the entire world during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. At its peak, the empire consisted of mostly southeastern Europe to Vienna, including present day Hungary, Greece, parts of the Ukraine, and…
Another example of cultural diffusion is in the Safavid Empire around the 1500s. In 1587, Shah Abbas, or Abbas the Great, took the throne of the empire. He helped to create a Safavid culture and golden age that used ideas from the Ottoman, Persian, and Arab worlds. Shah Abbas limited the power of the military and created two new armies, one of these being an army of Persians, and the…
- Muslim who died far away from his land of origin; a local ruler of some prominence…
* The second empire to emerge at the beginning of the 16th century was the Safavid Empire…
The Tribal Chieftain of Al-Fayoum - A strict and ruthless tribal chieftain who lives in luxury. He enforces…