OTTOMAN EMPIRE

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OTTOMAN EMPIRE

• WHEN Mid 1200s 1900s
• WHERE Africa, Asia, Europe
• Mediterranean Byzantine Empire
• WHO Muslim Turkish Warriors called Ottomans
• LED BY Sultan Ruler
• 1453 Mehmed II The Conqueror Byzantine
  Empire
• 1520 Sulyman I The Magnificent Further
  into Europe
• SOCIAL STRUCTURE 2 Classes
• 1 Ruling Class Muslim Advisors
• 2 Everyone else
• Slave soldiers Janissaries
• RELIGION Ruling class Sunni Muslim
• Christians and Jews lived in millets with their
  leaders Women were separated into harems.
• ACCOMPLISHMENTS Muslim Poets
• Architects converted Christian churches into
  mosques

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SAFAVID EMPIRE

• WHEN 1501 - 1700s
• WHERE Persia
• WHO Persian Muslims
• Shias (Shiites)
• LED BY Esmail conquered Persia
• Shah
• SOCIAL STRUCTURE Blended
• Persian and Muslim (tolerant)
• RELIGION Shiism ONLY members of Muhammads
  family could become Caliphs.
• ACCOMPLISHMENTS Persian rug,
• silk and velvet, ceramics, steel products,
  and TRADE!!!!

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MUGHAL

• WHEN 1526 1700S
• WHERE India
• WHO Turkish Muslims from Central Asia
• LED BY Babur Tiger 1526
• Akbar mid 1500s
• Bad Man late 1600s
• SOCIAL STRUCTURE Akbar blended society and
  government TOLERANT. Bad guy intolerant
  harsh policies uprisings.
• RELIGION Akbar no SINGLE religion has all of
  the answers. Bad man had to be Muslim.
• ACCOMPLISHMENTS Blended Persian, Islamic, and
  Hindu styles, Taj Mahal