Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

History of the Middle East (Part 4.5: Iranian dynasties), Timur was born…

- - - - However, the empire was quickly divided between the Buyid dynasty (934-1062) in the East and the Samanid Empire (892-999) in the West.
  - - - The Ghaznavid were a great center of learning, but, just like the Buyids, were eventually conquered by the Seljuks.
- - - - Having consolidated his position, he spent the 1380’s conquering Iranian plateau, with many cities surrendering without a fight due to his cruel reputation, and in the 1390’s he conquered Mesopotamia and Baghdad, the capital of Islam.
      - He initially had to deal with invasions from the Golden Horde and eventually put a puppet ruler there, but he was betrayed and thus decided to simply ravage it to a point of no recovery.
  - - - After his death, the empire fell to civil war and invasions, mostly Persian and Uzbek, but Babar (r. 1526-1530), his grandson would found the Mughal empire (1526-1857) in India.
- - - - He then attacked the Ottomans to (re)take Azerbaijan and Iraq, but when the emperor's incompetence led to failure, Nader deposed him and declared himself reagent a puppet ruler.
        
        He then drove the Ottomans out of Iran and threatened Russia so that they would abandon their claims to the region. In 1736 he deposed the puppet ruler and took the throne.
    - - Although a brilliant strategist, he was horrible at statesmanship and was very cruel, thus bankrupting his country and being assassinated by his own troops.