Abbas the Great
Leader: Abbas
Lifespan: 1571- 1629
Title: Abbas the Great
Country/Region: Safavids
Ideology, Motivation, Goals:
- Strived to keep travelers and merchants safe.
- Awe visitors by lavished public works projects.
Actions and Effects:
- Made greatest use of youths captured in Russia, and made them educated and convert to Islam.
- Abbas killed and/or blinded all who could succeed him which, in the end, was a bad idea because the Ottomans fell.
- Expanded commercial links with the English East India Company and the Dutch East India Company.
-Overcame borders of pre-Islamic times.
Short Term Effects:
- Under his rule empire reached height of strength and prosperity
- Set up workshops to manufacture silk textiles and Persian carpets.
- Made an army of 40,000 and an elite body guard.
Long Term Effects:
- Glory of his reign: building great mosques at his capital of Isfahan.
- Had network of roads and rest houses built.
- Founded several colleges.
Leader Analysis by Reema N
1450-1750
Lifespan: 1571- 1629
Title: Abbas the Great
Country/Region: Safavids
Ideology, Motivation, Goals:
- Strived to keep travelers and merchants safe.
- Awe visitors by lavished public works projects.
Actions and Effects:
- Made greatest use of youths captured in Russia, and made them educated and convert to Islam.
- Abbas killed and/or blinded all who could succeed him which, in the end, was a bad idea because the Ottomans fell.
- Expanded commercial links with the English East India Company and the Dutch East India Company.
-Overcame borders of pre-Islamic times.
Short Term Effects:
- Under his rule empire reached height of strength and prosperity
- Set up workshops to manufacture silk textiles and Persian carpets.
- Made an army of 40,000 and an elite body guard.
Long Term Effects:
- Glory of his reign: building great mosques at his capital of Isfahan.
- Had network of roads and rest houses built.
- Founded several colleges.
Leader Analysis by Reema N
1450-1750
