A History of World Societies:
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A History of World Societies Value
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| 1299– |
Reign of Osman, founder of the Ottoman Dynasty |
| 1299– |
Ottoman Empire |
| 1336– |
Life of Timur |
| ca. mid- |
Coffeehouses become center of Islamic male social life |
| 1453 | Ottoman conquest of Constantinople |
| 1501– |
Reign of Safavid Shah Isma’il |
| 1501– |
Safavid Empire |
| 1520– |
Hürrem wields influence in the Ottoman Empire as Suleiman’s concubine and then wife |
| 1520– |
Reign of Ottoman sultan Suleiman I; period of artistic flowering in Ottoman Empire |
| 1521 | Piri Reis produces Book of the Sea, a navigational map book |
| 1526– |
Mughal Empire |
| 1556– |
Reign of Akbar in Mughal Empire |
| 1570 | Ottomans take control of Cyprus |
| 1571 | First major Ottoman defeat by Christians, at Lepanto |
| 1587– |
Reign of Shah Abbas; height of Safavid power; carpet weaving becomes major Persian industry |
| 1631– |
Construction of Taj Mahal under Shah Jahan in India |
| 1658– |
Reign of Aurangzeb; Mughal power begins to decline |
| 1763 | Treaty of Paris recognizes British control over much of India |