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Why Was the Battle of Chaldiran in 1514 So Important

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Why was the battle of Chaldiran in 1514 so important?


A) The battle established the military supremacy of the Safavids over the Ottomans and marked the end to eastern expansion of the Ottoman Empire.
B) The Safavids were dealt a devastating defeat that checked the westward advance of Shi?ism and decimated the ranks of the Turkic warriors who had built the Safavid Empire.
C) The combined armies of the Safavids and Ottomans defeated the Mughal armies and ended the policy of expansion undertaken by the Mughal emperors of India.
D) The defeat of the Safavids by a Western army reduced the Islamic Empire to economic dependency on the West and military inferiority to the other Muslim empires.

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