Muslim world 1600-1650 (Chaos)

1599-1604: and fight the together in the . In the , Seljuks have to give parts of South Italy (Pescara, Benevent) to , the Ionian islands and to , the to France and core to Bourbon Hungary. All of and are left to E-C-P.
1605: France starts building many ships in , making it a big trade center, starts competing with Arabs for trade in the Indian Ocean.
 is toppled by the army and replaced by his brother .
1606-13: . The Dvoryan republic of now covers all the lands between Don and Dnepr, except for Tauria (the bit between and last part of Dnepr). The Seljuks are unable to support their tributary.
1610s: Arab pirates start plundering coastal cities of .
1623: Arab pirates defeated by a combined navy of Hindu and Hong. Maledives lost.
1629: France uses the opportunity to grab Algeria, where the Castillian rule isn't firm enough yet. In the following centuries, it becomes a source for slaves and a place of settlement for French and other Southern Europeans (coming from as far as , and Hungary).
1635-46: . In the , Bourbon Hungary acquires , Slavonia, and the Banat, France the strategically important , Venice the Peloponnes, Florence the northern half of South Italy. The Italians grumble, however, because they think their share is too small.
1638: Grand Duke dies fighting the Seljuks.
1647: After the lost war, sultan is toppled by the army too, replaced with his young son .
1648: Sher Ali III introduces the printing press to Persia.
Since 1650: Separated from the rest of the Seljuk empire, the governors of start to aim for more independence.
After the fifth defeat in a row, Seljuk intellectuals (for lack of a better word) suggest a different policy - instead of trying to regain a foot in Europe, the Empire should try to build up a "Greater Seljuk Empire", including many areas in and , like the empire of sultan Saladin.