Black Death And Mongol Invasions

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Mongol invasions and the Black Death contributed to the end of the Abbasid Empire. The Black Death was a combination of bubonic, pneumonic and septicemic plague strains and had a death rate of 25-65% in affected areas.The Mongol invasion contriubted to many other deaths and left the areas original population much smaller. However, many Turkish and Perisian speaking populations now resided in these regions. This led to the emergence of 3 new Islamic states: the Ottomans, the Safavids, and the Mughal dynaisties. Once order was established, the new states carefully chose which elements of the old society to embrace and which to abandon, mainly in the religious sphere.

The Ottoman Empire was ruled by Seljuk warrior nomads and their chief, Osman.