16th Century Timeline: 1501 to 1600. 1501 The world has a population of around 435 million – about one-fourteenth today's population of 6.4 billion. 1501 A military Sufi order in Persia known as the Safavids have survived Timur (Tamerlane) and have adopted the Shia branch of Islam.
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