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 * Persian
-|1453-1629
+* also called "Safavid Dynasty"
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-* note the date, 1453 = the year of the fall of Constantinople, during which time the Ottmans were focused on expanding westward
+* made Shi'a Islam official and forcibly converted Sunni Muslims
+** the change put the empire at odds w/ the Sunni Ottomans
+* one of the "gunpowder empires"
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