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Danube
Caspian Sea
Caucasus
Oxus (Amu Darya)
castile
Fez m o r o c c o
a r a g o n
Algiers
Rome
Tunis
Lepanto
Mediterranean Sea
Tabriz
Samarqand
Balkh
Early Modern Era 1500–1800
portugal
Euphrates
Tigris
Nile
Yangtze
Persian Gulf
Indus
hijaz
Red Sea
songhay
Bombay Bijapur
Calicut
bengal
Bay of Bengal
Sahara Desert
Jaipur
Vienna
russia
Black Sea
Istanbul
ottoman empire
1453 Sultan Mehmed ii (d. 1481), captures the Byzantine
capital Constantinople and establishes the Ottoman capital of Istanbul
1501 Safawid Shah Ismaʿil (d. 1524) founds the Safawid state in Iran, inaugurating a new era for Shiʿi Islam
1503 The ʿAdil-Shahis (1490–1686) become the rst Muslim dynasty in India to adopt Twelver Shiʿism as their state religion
1514 The Ottomans led by Selim i (d. 1520) defeat the Safawids at the Battle of Chaldiran, in eastern Turkey
1511 Portuguese reach Malacca, on the Malay Peninsula
1520 The tenth Ottoman sultan, Sulayman i (d. 1566), also known
as Sulayman the Magni cent (d. 1566) ascends the throne 1530 Death of Babur, founder of the Mughal dynasty
1556 Beginning of the reign of the Mughal Emperor Akbar 1571 Ottoman expansion in the Mediterranean Sea is halted
at the Battle of Lepanto, o present-day Greece, when the Ottoman navy is defeated by a coalition of the Spanish, Portuguese and Venetian navies
1585 Akbar completes building his administrative capital at Fatehpur Sikri, Agra
1598 Safawid Shah ʿAbbas i establishes the Safawid capital at Isfahan
1600 The East India Company, an English commercial trading company is established in London and goes on to secure a concession from Mughal Emperor Jahangir establishing their headquarters at Surat, in Gujarat, and later in Bombay (present-day Mumbai)
1631 Death of Mumtaz Mahal, the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan’s favourite wife, for whom he builds a mausoleum in Agra, the Taj Mahal
1640 Death of Mulla Sadra, the most important representative
of the philosophical movement called the School of Isfahan
1658 Beginning of the reign of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb 1674 Awrangzeb completes the Badshahi Mosque, Lahore
(Pakistan), the last great Mughal building
1683 The defeat of the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna is a
turning point that marks the limits of their power
1730 A coalition led by the merchant Patrona Halil made up of
urban groups, the poor and leading religious o cials depose Ahmad iii, whose reign, known as the Tulip Era, was one of cultural revival
1738 Afsharid dynasty of Iran conquers Delhi
ca. 1749 The Busaidi dynasty establish the Sultanate of Oman
and Zanzibar
1825 Prince Dieponegoro of the Yogyakarta Sultanate of Java
(founded 1755) leads a rebellion against Dutch rule in Java
hungary Venice
Aral Sea
Khiva
ferghana
Ardabil Bukhara xinjiang
Jerusalem ottoman empire Cairo
Baghdad
arabia
Isfahan iran
Himalayas
Delhi
Agra china
egypt
sindh Muscat
gujarat
Arabian Sea
Aleppo Damascus
Medina Mecca
yemen
Marw
safavid empire
mughal empire
hadramaut
Niger
Malacca Straits
Lamu sumatra Mombasa
Indian Ocean
aceh
Malacca
javaDemak
South China Sea