Compare The Safavid Empire To The Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire was motivated by an interest in spreading their religion which is Islam. Gaining more territory was a big thing for them because they wanted to get bigger and to gain more land for farming to keep the people feed. The more important reason to the mass expansion was to improve trade for the empire. Seeking glory was also a big thing with emperors just as a personal goal and for the empire they’ll get more of the glory status by taking city 's or having a massive empire and big armies. The Safavid Empire was motivated by Spreading Shi’a Islam like every empire motivation to expand. Gaining territory was big with any empire but for this one they did it because they were a kind of smaller empire but yet not too small but every emperor wants to be bigger than their foes.The Safavid Empire also had a massive part of the trade routes like having baghdad which is the main hub of trade. Both of the empires have very similar motivations when it comes to expanding but they have there very minor differences when it comes to expansion.

The Ottoman Empire expanded by utilizing an elite military force (Janissary Corps.) by sometimes just going with the regular military things with battles and sieging cities but much better than the …show more content…
The ottomans banned the practice of Shi’a so they expelled Shi’a Islam soldiers from the Ottoman Empire which they ended up going back to the Safavid Empire and so they fought for and since they were apart of the ottoman empire they know the up to date tactics so itll help the Safavids in battle. these empires both had good armies but the ottomans had a better leader that knew what he was doing which gave the ottomans an upper hand in battles but the Safavid had a upper hand at