pt. 2

• Sha Abbas the Great was the founder of Safavid Empire.
• he was able to protect the Safavid Empire from Ottoman Empire and Moghul Empire
• decreased the taxes paid by farmers
• Isfahan became the center of silk trade
• Safavid products are porcelain, clothes, and carpets
• Sunni Islam 


  the official religion of the empire
• Reason of downfall 


  Incompetent leader, peace with the Ottoman Empire, Famine and disease
• West Asia: Competition of Europe 


  trade route, colonization, religion
• Trade route


  muslims have controlled the trade networks from Europe, Asia, and Africa.
• Colonization


  Ottoman expanded to Africa, Eastern Europe, and West Asia.
• Religion


  All Islamic Empires exerted efforts to convert their colonies into Islamic communities.
• European Invasion in West Asia

  Ottoman and Safavid Empires embraced industrialization
• sent scholars to Europe to learn about science and technology
• European military trained the Ottoman military
• adapt the liberalism idea
• Treaties made by European involving West Asia

  Sykes-Picot Agreement, Treaty of Bosporus, West Asia in the World war I and II
• Sykes Picot-Agreement


  appointed France to oversee Syria and the province of Mosul
• appointed Britain to oversee Baghdad and Basra
• Treaty of Bosporus 


  preventing Russia to control bosporus trait
• West Asia in the World War I

  The Ottoman Empire joined the world war in favor of Germany and Austria-Hungary (Central Powers)
• Central powers were defeated in the First World War
• Ataturk became Turkey's president after the war and adopted Western influences.
• Women were granted right to participate in public activities
• Both men and women were allowed not to wear their traditional Islamic costume.
• English alphabet replaced the Arabic script.
• Lebanon and Syria fall under the protection of France
• Palestine, Iraq and Jordan fall under the protection of Britain.
• West Asia in the World War II

  Palestine falls under the control of the UN
• Balfour Declaration


  signed by britain that promised Jews to have their nation.
• U.S give Israel loans for industrialization.
• Arab-Israeli War began