Safavid Empire – Iran in the 1600s
Safavid Iran: the Battle of Hormuz Abbas fights Nur Jahan Abbas, the Shah of Iran, after conquering most of what is now Iraq from the Ottomans, turned east again and [...]
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Ottoman Empire in the 1700s
Enderun Library, Topkapi Palace (Istanbul, 1719) Rabia rules the Ottoman Empire By 1703 AD, people were unhappy enough with Feyzullah Efendi that the Sultan killed him. Wait, who's Feyzullah Efendi? [...]
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Iran in the 1800s: Amir Kabir
Amir Kabir, who ruled Iran in the 1800s Nasser al-Din and Amir Kabir Mohammed Qajar died in 1848, a year of revolution and democracy in Europe. In Iran it brought change [...]
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Modern Iran – the Shah of Iran
Modern Iran: Taking Iran's oil for the British navy in World War I Mozaffar ad-Din Nasser al-Din was shot and killed in 1896, when he was 65 years old. His son [...]
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Iran and British colonialism – the 1800s
Iran and British colonialism - Fath-Ali Shah Qajar Muhammed Khan Qajar Muhammed Khan Qajar conquered a lot of land for Iran, and made Iran richer. But that didn't stop him from [...]
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Nader Shah – history of Iran – the 1700s
Nader Shah (Iran, 1736-1747) In 1736 AD, Nader Shah overthrew the last Safavid shah and established the country of Iran, with himself as the Shah (king) of Iran. Like Genghis Khan, Nader Shah was [...]
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West Asian economy – Safavids and Ottomans
A man making paper West Asia entered the 1500s AD in a very powerful position in world trade. Iran, together with the Central Asian state of Uzbekistan and the Mughal Empire, dominated the Silk Road, and the Silk Road [...]
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What is measles? History of diseases
A kid with measles Symptoms of measles Measles is a sickness that first makes you feel sick, with a fever, a cough, and a runny nose. Then it gives you [...]
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Layla and Majnun
Layla and Majnun at school together, from a manuscript of the Khamsa that belonged to Timur's son and is now in the Hermitage Museum (1431 AD). An Iranian story This [...]
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Where did Purim come from? Jewish holidays
Mordecai is leading Esther (on the horse) to talk to the Persian king. A fresco from the world's oldest preserved synagogue at Dura-Europos in Syria (244 AD) How did Purim [...]
