The Ottoman–Safavid War of 1532–1555 is fought between the Ottoman Empire of Suleiman the Magnificent and the Persian Safavid Empire of Tahmasp I.
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress."
― H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, Vol 2 (1920)