The safavids were a series of rulers in the Persian Empire, they ruled from the 1500 hundreds to the 1700s. After their invasion of the Mongols, they established the Shi'ite ways as their national language and religion in Persia. The Safavids ruled over a peaceful and prosperous empire for the most part. They had the greatest Turkish empire since the Muslim conquest, yet did not have the strongest army; this left them open to invasions. The clever Safavids allied with the Europeans in order to protect from the Ottomans. They had a generally strong economy and their main imports (mainly through the silk road) were spices, textiles, cottons, metals, coffee and sugar.
