Question

Which of the following BEST describes the impact of Shah Ismail I?
A) Safavid ruler who established the dynasty
B) Mughal ruler who established the dynasty
C) Ottoman ruler who established the dynasty
D) Safavid ruler who led the dynasty to its greatest extent
E) Ottoman ruler who led the dynasty to its greatest extent

Answer 1

Hint: Originally, the Safavid brotherhood was a religious order. Important Shi'a soldiers from the Ottoman army who had fled persecution bolstered the Safavid Empire. Shah Ismail was proclaimed monarch of Iran when the Safavids came to power at the age of 14 or 15, and by 1510, he had controlled the entire country.

Complete answer:
Through military conquest, Shah Ismail, the founder of the Safavid dynasty, united the western and eastern portions of the Iranian plateau. Prior to the establishment of the Safavids, the region was divided into a patchwork of independent nations ruled by local kings.

Babur, the first Mughal emperor, was born in what is now Uzbekistan and ruled Kabul, Afghanistan. In 1526, he attacked the Lodi Afghan kingdom in northern India and founded a dynasty that would dominate for the next three centuries.

Osman I, also known as Osman Gazi, was the founder of the Ottoman Turkish state and ruler of a Turkmen principality in northeastern Anatolia. The dynasty's name and the empire that the dynasty built are both derived from the Arabic form of his name (Uthm).

In Persia, the Safavid Empire was a Muslim empire. From 1588 through 1629, Shah Abbas ruled as the greatest Safavid emperor. The Safavid Golden Age was founded on Shah Abbas' policies and leadership. His talents to art and government propelled the Safavids to its pinnacle during the Golden Age.

During the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire peaked from 1520 and 1566. Great power, stability, and riches characterised this era. Suleiman established a unified legal system and embraced a variety of artistic and literary expressions.

The correct answer is option ‘A’ i.e, Safavid ruler who established the dynasty.

Note: Ismail's reign is one of Iran's most important in history. One of his first acts was the proclamation of Shia Islam's Twelver sect as the official religion of his newly founded state, which had enormous ramifications for Iran's subsequent history.