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Brian: Other interesting facts and images that will help others understand why your empire should be the most powerful and how your empire was advanced compared to Europe at this time. 

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Brian: Other interesting facts and images that will help others understand why your empire should be the most powerful and how your empire was advanced compared to Europe at this time. 

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Once again, they were known for their gunpowder weapons, which made their military  seem extremely advanced compared to Europe at the time, and most of the empire's economic strength came from its location on the trade routes.

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Grace: What caused the downfall of the empire?

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Grace: What caused the downfall of the empire?

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What caused the downfall of the empire was a string of military losses sustained against outside forces. Rome had tangled with Germanic tribes for centuries, but by the 300s “barbarian” groups like the Goths had encroached beyond the Empire's borders. Rome had tangled with Germanic tribes for centuries, but by the 300s “barbarian” groups like the Goths had encroached beyond the Empire's borders.

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John: What unique characteristics did your empire have?

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John: What unique characteristics did your empire have?

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The Safavid Empire was a theocracy (“a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.”)

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John: Are there religious beliefs of the empire?

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John: Are there religious beliefs of the empire?

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The state religion was converted to Shia Islam by the rule of Shah Ismail and it still is to this day.

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 Brian: Did you empire have a long-distance trade- what type of items? With who? Etc.

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 Brian: Did you empire have a long-distance trade- what type of items? With who? Etc.

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They mainly traded between the east and west. The things they traded were silk and textiles, leather, camel and sheep wool, Chinese model dishes, gold and silver artifacts, rugs and precious stones.

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John: Cultural exchange – what types of ideas and other unique characteristics of the empire were spread? How did it impact the ‘global’ world?

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John: Cultural exchange – what types of ideas and other unique characteristics of the empire were spread? How did it impact the ‘global’ world?

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There were many unique characteristics to the Safavid Empire. The Safavid Empire exclusively Shia did not allow any other region inside the empire. If you were Christian or anything else you would be immediately converted. This influenced the world greatly.

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Brian: Why was your assigned empire more successful than others...politically, socially, economically?

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Brian: Why was your assigned empire more successful than others...politically, socially, economically?

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They were a gunpowder empire which means they were one of the first dynasties that used gunpowder weapons and this made their military stronger than many other empires.

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Grace: What is the background of the Safavid Empire?

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Grace: What is the background of the Safavid Empire?

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It was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty

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Located in the Iranian Azerbaijan region. It covered all of Iran and parts of Turkey and Georgia.