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Safavid Persia Chapter 18:1b

Safavid Persia Chapter 18:1b. [Image source: http://warandgame.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/]. The Shia leader Shah Isma’il conquered the people of present-day Iran in the 1500s, establishing the Safavid dynasty. [Image source: http://bss.sfsu.edu/Behrooz/Page-Safavid.htm].

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Safavid Persia Chapter 18:1b

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  1. Safavid PersiaChapter 18:1b [Image source: http://warandgame.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/]

  2. The Shia leader Shah Isma’il conquered the people of present-day Iran in the 1500s, establishing the Safavid dynasty. [Image source: http://bss.sfsu.edu/Behrooz/Page-Safavid.htm]

  3. Safavid rulers required all Persians to convert to the Shia form of Islam. [Image source: http://www.answering-christianity.com/shia_mosques.htm]

  4. After ascending to the throne in 1587, Shah Abbas regained some of the territory lostto the Ottoman Turkish empire. [Image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mahmud_and_Ayaz_and_Shah_Abbas_I.jpg]

  5. Shah Abbas used an alliance with the English to seize the strategic Strait of Hormuz in 1622.

  6. Shah Abbas established his court in Isfahan, turning the city into a center of Islamic culture and learning. [Image source: http://caledoniyya.com/2008/05/31/1001-reasons-to-be-a-proud-iranian/]

  7. Inept rulers weakened the Safavid empire, following the death of Shah Abbas in 1629. [Image source: http://ffffound.com/home/julianamundim/post/?offset=75&]

  8. The empire was divided in 1747, following the assassination of Shah Nader Shah. [Image source: http://anatomylesson.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/micheal-axworthy-sword-of-persia-nader-shah-from-tribal-warrior-to-tyrant/]

  9. A Turkic group established the Qajar Dynasty in the late-1700s, and ruled Persia until 1925. [Image source: http://www.qajarpages.org/fathalishah.html]

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