Safavids

= CHART: CHARACTERISTICS OF A CIVILIZATION OR CULTURE =

**NAME: Kirby Brand PERIOD: 5 DATE: November 2010**

· ** Leaders, Elites ** · ** State Structure ** · ** War ** · ** Diplomacy, Treaties ** · **Courts, Laws** ||  · Turkish leadership · For a century it was in military conflict with the Ottoman Empire reflecting both territorial rivalry and sharp religious differences. · They were a type of hereditary mystical spiritual authority. · Isma’il was a young Safavid master and he expanded Safavid control over much of Iran, Mesopotamia, and the Caucasus south of Russia. He called himself the representative of the hidden Imam. · Shah Abbas took back much of the land that the Ottomans stole from them. || · ** Type of System ** · ** Technology, Industry ** · ** Trade, Commerce ** · ** Capital/Money ** · **Types of Businesses** || * the decline of the state was partially caused by an economic decline. This decline occurred mostly because wealth began to concentrate in only a few hands. || · ** Holy Books ** · ** Beliefs, Teachings ** · ** Conversion ** · ** Sin/Salvation ** · **Deities** || * Emerged from a Sufi religious order · ** Family ** · ** Gender Relations ** · ** Social Classes ** · ** Inequalities ** · **Life Styles** || * Consisted of only Shia people. || · ** Art, Music ** · ** Writing, Literature ** · ** Philosophy ** · ** Math & Science ** · **Education** || * the greatest of the arts was architecture. They built mosques palaces, and parks. These built during the reign of Abbas are some of the greatest achievements of Islam. · ** Location ** · ** Physical ** · ** Movement ** · ** Human/Environment ** · **Region** || * in Persian lands
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 * = ECONOMIC =
 * == RELIGIOUS ==
 * Decided to forcibly impose a Shia version of Islam as the official religion of the state.
 * it was a strictly Shia state and because of that there were conflicts with its Sunni neighbors ||
 * == SOCIAL ==
 * == INTELLECTUAL, artS ==
 * The divine philosophy is the school of Isfahan. The school believed that true wisdom was the product of both reason and intuition. ||
 * == NEAR: GEOGRAPHY ==
 * neighboring the Ottoman Empire
 * took shape in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries
 * located in modern day Iran, and parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan ||

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