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Jan 27, 1520
Shah Abbas is born!
-Shah Abbas was the 3rd son of Shah Muhammed, born in January of 1520 in Herat, Afghanistan. -
Nov 2, 1581
Became ruler of Khorasan
-was declared ruler because his father was sickly
-he was about 10 years old at this time
-he became ruler in the midst of anarchy -
Gained the power of the Persian thrown
-18 when he gained this power
-He rebelled against his father to get this position
-Did it by imprisoning him
-He did it because he was fed up with always losing to the Ottomen because his fathers army-the Qizilbash army-at that point was "defective" and they weren't very succeful -
Shah Abbas signs for peace
-After many long battles Shah Abbas decided to sign for peace with the Ottomen
-Within this peace treaty included large sections of west and northwest Persia for land
-Since the Ottomen were no longer necessarily enemies, Shah redirected his attention to the other enemy-the Uzbeks -
(continued signed peace treaty with Ottomen)
-It took a year for the peace treaty to be completed -
Abbah regains Mashhad
-he finally defeated the Uzbeks
-the battle was a struggle but they won in the end
-the battle even was fought over the Oxus River (an important river to the greeks that dates back thousands of years which is presently name the Amu Darya) -
Abbas gains again!
-even still towards the end of the battle, Abbas gained the homage of the provinces on the southern Caspian Sea
<----gained the territory because he took advantage of the fact that Ivan the Terrible died (also known as the Prince of Moscow) -
Rollercoaster with the Ottomen
-Abbas now launches a campaign against the Ottomen -
Abbas succeds!
-Abbas then wins the first victory against them
-forcing them to give back the teritory
-you can bet they were upset because they also had to include Bagdhad with giving back the territories -
New rebellion for Abbas
-Abbas was a successful man when it came to killings (if you want to consider that being "successful")
-Abbas killed more than 60,000 Georgians
-then deported about 100,000 in Tblisi after his rebellion -
His success lives on!
-With the help from the British fleet, Abbas seized the island of Hormuz form the Portuguese
-Then, Abbas expanded commercial links
-He expanded the commmercial links with the English East India company and the Dutch East India company -
End to a successor
-Abbas the great died in Mazandaran
-He was one of the greatest and most successul rulers to the Safavid dynsaty
-He was so successful he overcame the Persian borders of the pre-Islam times
-Unfortunately, he still looks like a jerk because his success was shadowed by the fact that he still betrated his family to a point that was proved with numerous "counts" of tyranny and cruelty to his family
-Which is even a little more upsetting is the fact that he killed his own son
