Mundi Melioris - a timurid empire timeline

Mundi Melioris

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Then shall my native city, Samarcanda...
Be famous through the furthest continents,
For there my palace-royal shall be placed,
Whose shining turrets shall dismay the heavens,
And cast the fame of lion's tower to hell.

~ Timur
 
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Timurid Empire
Timur was born in Transoxiana, in the City of Kesh (an area now better known as Shahrisabz, 'the green city,'), some 50 miles south of Samarkand in modern Uzbekistan. His father, Taraqai, was a small-scale landowner and belonged to the Barlas tribe. The Barlas were remnants of the original Mongol hordes of Genghis Khan.
Timur was a Muslim, but while his official religious counselor was the Hanafite scholar 'Abdu 'l-Jabbar Khwarazmi, his particular persuasion is not known. In Tirmidh, he had come under the influence of his spiritual mentor Sayyid Barakah, a Shiite leader from Balkh who is buried alongside Timur in Gur-e Amir. Despite his Hanafi background, Timur was known to hold ‘Ali and the Shi’i Imams in high regard and has been noted by various scholars for his "pro-‘Alid" stance. Despite this, Timur was noted for attacking Shi’is on Sunni grounds and therefore his own religious inclinations remain unclear.
In about 1360 Timur gained prominence as a military leader whose troops were mostly Turkic tribesmen of the region. He took part in campaigns in Transoxiana with the Khan of Chagatai, a fellow descendant of Genghis Khan. His career for the next ten or eleven years may be thus briefly summarized from the Memoirs. Allying himself both in cause and by family connection with Kurgan, the dethroner and destroyer of Volga Bulgaria, he was to invade Khorasan at the head of a thousand horsemen. This was the second military expedition which he led, and its success led to further operations, among them the subjugation of Khorezm and Urganj.
After the murder of Kurgan the disputes which arose among the many claimants to sovereign power were halted by the invasion of the energetic Jagataite Tughlugh Timur of Kashgar, another descendant of Genghis Khan. Timur was dispatched on a mission to the invader's camp, the result of which was his own appointment to the head of his own tribe, the Barlas, in place of its former leader, Hajji Beg.
The exigencies of Timur's quasi-sovereign position compelled him to have recourse to his formidable patron, whose reappearance on the banks of the Syr Darya created a consternation not easily allayed. The Barlas were taken from Timur and entrusted to a son of Tughluk, along with the rest of Mawarannahr; but he was defeated in battle by the bold warrior he had replaced at the head of a numerically far inferior force.
Tughlugh's death facilitated the work of reconquest, and a few years of perseverance and energy sufficed for its accomplishment, as well as for the addition of a vast extent of territory. It was in this period that Timur reduced the Chagatai khans to the position of figureheads, who were deferred to in theory but in reality ignored, while Timur ruled in their name. During this period Timur and his brother-in-law Husayn, at first fellow fugitives and wanderers in joint adventures full of interest and romance, became rivals and antagonists. At the close of 1369 Husayn was assassinated and Timur, having been formally proclaimed sovereign at Balkh, mounted the throne at Samarkand, the capital of his dominions. This event was recorded by Marlowe in his famous work Tamburlaine the Great.
Timur spent the next 35 years in various wars and expeditions. He not only consolidated his rule at home by the subjugation of his foes, but sought extension of territory by encroachments upon the lands of foreign potentates. His conquests to the west and northwest led him to the lands near the Caspian Sea and to the banks of the Ural and the Volga. Conquests in the south and south-West encompassed almost every province in Persia, Kashmir, including Baghdad, Karbala and Northern Iraq.
After the death of Abu Sa'id in 1335, the last ruler of the Ilkhanid Dynasty, there was a power vacuum in Persia. So in 1383 Timur could start his military conquest of that country. In 1385 he captured Herat, Khorasan and all of eastern Persia. In the same year Tokhtamysh raided Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran. The city of Tabriz was plundered and Tokhtamysh could retire with a rich booty.
Tibet was conquered and attacked by Timur in 1385 knowing it’s strategic position and he defeated Drakpa Gyaltsen and the Timurids started to build mosques and favour the muslims of Tibet and because of that many Tibetan monks seek refuge in South East Asia the first of such seeked assylum in the Zhuang and the Shan, Vietnam,and the Tibetan monks also go to Pulilu/Mayi and the Buddhist South East Asia starts to veer toward Vajrayna Buddhism starting in 1380’s.
Between 1389 and 1391, the two started fighting, with the Battle of the Kondurcha River awarding victory to Timur, Timur secured the Golden Horde territory and executed Tokhtamysh and because of that Timur had a large empire ranging from Tibet and Kashmir to near Russia.
 
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Destruction of the Empire of Timur
After the death of Timur the great his empire started to collapse and his grandson, Pir Muhamad cannot manage the large land of his Grandfather, Timur and because of that the empire of his Grandfather disintegrated completely, Tibet first seceded in 1410 with a new ruler Drakpa Tenzin and Ladakh becomes a part of Tibet, Kashmir seceded with the continuation of it’s old dynasty ruling it in 1412 dynasty and Iraq, Georgia and Armenia slipped to ottoman control in 1414, the reign of Pir Muhamad is known for instability of the Timurid Empire which only has OTL Iran, Golden Horde territory and West of OTL Pakistan.
 
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