West Asia in the early modern world (1500 – 1800). Oceans became highways, gunpowder empires rose, and the scientific revolution began. These articles cover the three centuries in which the world's regions first became one system.
A gazelle-skin fragment names about twenty source charts, including one by Columbus. Found at Topkapi in 1929, it carries a disputed Antarctica claim.
· 1513On August 23, 1514, Selim I's janissaries fired from behind gun-carriages at Shah Ismail's cavalry near Khoy. Tabriz fell and was lost; peace came in 1555.
· 1514Suleiman camped at Vienna in September 1529 and quit after three weeks as winter came early. He then took Baghdad, wrote law and built the Süleymaniye.
· 1529Arakel of Tabriz dated the Julfa deportation to October 21 to November 19, 1604. Its merchants rebuilt across from Isfahan in 1605; a press came in 1636.
· 1605Shah Abbas laid out a 524-by-158-meter square at Isfahan and began the Masjed-e Shah there in 1611; deported Julfa Armenians carried his silk.
· 1611A fire started outside Istanbul's Cibali gate on September 2, 1633, and burned a fifth of the city. The same day, Murad IV ordered the coffeehouses shut.
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