The Great Safavid Empire

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The great Safavid Empire were mainly Shi'ite Muslims, having a small portion of Hindu and Jewish minorities included (Savory, 2016). The Safavids were not very diverse, they kept within their own, majority of the time forcing non-Shi’ite Muslims to convert (Savory, 2016). There was not much trade in the Safavid Empire as the Ottoman Empire, but the nation, as well as the capital, was mainly landlocked (BBC, 2009). Shah Abbas took power of the Safavids during Golden Age and Gunpowder Empire around 1588, his ideas strengthened the Safavid Dynasty (Savory, 2016). His works consisted of making alliances with Europeans, giving land grants to military elite to gain loyalty, and so on. There was not as much trade in the Safavid Empire as the Ottoman