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Q. How did Suleiman gain control over his empire?
How did Suleyman gain control over his realm? Ordered everyone to declare loyalty to him and executed those who didn’t. He ruled for longer, made many civil laws, and allowed people to keep their faiths as long as they were loyal.
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- Q. How did Suleiman gain control over his empire?
- Q. How did Suleiman gain power?
- Q. What was Suleyman able to do to European traders?
- Q. What was the source of the conflict between the Ottomans and the Șafavids?
- Q. What caused the Ottoman and Safavid trade to decline?
- Q. What was the main difference between the Ottomans and the Safavids?
- Q. Why was the Ottoman and Safavid empires leadership weakened?
- Q. Why was there frequent conflict between the Ottoman and Safavid empires?
Q. How did Suleiman gain power?
When his father died, Suleiman went to Constantinople to take power (until that, he had governed one of the provinces of the Empire). When Suleiman entered Constantinople, he became the 10th sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
Q. What was Suleyman able to do to European traders?
(Inalcik 125) The extremely fine silks of Northern Iran were much sought after, particularly by Italian merchants and Süleyman was able to extract heavy taxes from European traders. The goods they valued most were gold, jewels, silk, and perfumes. Spices were in even more demand.
Q. What was the source of the conflict between the Ottomans and the Șafavids?
The source of the conflict between the Ottomans and the Safavids was religious; the Ottomans were sunni, the Safavids were shia, and both the sultan and the shah claimed to be the leader of Islam. As such, Safavid expansion and massacres of Sunni Muslims goaded the Ottomans into action against them.
Q. What caused the Ottoman and Safavid trade to decline?
Military power and the wealth of the Ottomans fell apart. In the late sixteenth century, the inflation caused by cheap silver spread into Iran. Then overland trade through Safavid territory declined because of mismanagement of the silk monopoly after Shah Abbas’s death in 1629.
Q. What was the main difference between the Ottomans and the Safavids?
A key difference between the Ottomans and the Safavids was that the Ottomans were Sunni, and the Safavids were Shia. Both, the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid Empire were superpowers in West Asia and the major empires of its time in the region.
Q. Why was the Ottoman and Safavid empires leadership weakened?
The Safavid Empire was held together in the early years by conquering new territory, and then by the need to defend it from the neighbouring Ottoman Empire. But in the seventeenth century the Ottoman threat to the Safavids declined. The first result of this was that the military forces became less effective.
Q. Why was there frequent conflict between the Ottoman and Safavid empires?
The Ottoman and Safavid empires were both muslim, but the Ottoman empire was sunni while the Safavid empire was Shiite. This caused conflict between the two empires along with fighting over territory, considering they bordered each other, so they went into a war called the Battle of Chaldiran.
