The Safavid Empire

which of the following represents a difference between the origins of the Ottomans and the Safavids

• The Safavid‘s originated for me Turkish nomadic group

• The Safavid‘s represented a highly militant strain of Islam

• The Safavids are originally frontier warriors

• The Safavid represented the Shi’a strain of Islam

The center of the Safavid empire was the modern day state of

• Syria

• Iraq

• Jordan

• Iran

The first Safavid shah was

• Abbas the Great

• Suleyman the Great

• Akbar

• Isma’il

Why was the battle of chaldiran in 1514 so important

• The battle established the military supremacy of the Safavid over the Ottomans and not the end to eastern expansion of the ottoman empire

• The Safavids were dealt a devastating defeat that checked the westward advance of Shi’sm and decimated the ranks of the Turkic warriors who had built the Safavid empire

• The combine armies of the Safavid and Ottomans defeated the Mughal armies and ended the policies expansion undertaken by the Mughal emperors of India

• The defeat of the Safavid to buy a western army reduce the Islamic empire to economic tendency on the west and military inferiority to the other Muslim empires

The Safavid Empire reached its greatest extent under Shah

• Suleyman the Great

• Tahmasp I.

• Abbas the Great

• Isma’il

What led to the rapid demise of the Safavid empire

• Like the Ottoman Empire, the lack of succession led Abbas the Great to eliminate all capable rivals, leaving no capable ruler following his death

• The Safavid defeat at the battle of Panipat at the hands of a Russian army stripped the empire of its military forces just as pressure from outside enemies increased

• The collapse of the Safavid economy in the 18th century diminished the revenues of the empire to the point that the central government could no longer function

• The successful conquest of the Ottoman Empire overextended the Safavid resources so that the central government became increasingly inefficient