Plausibility check: Seljuk migrations into Europe

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Would it be plausible for Seljuk and the Oghuz confederacy to conquer the dying Khazars and form their empire around from the former's ashes, eventually expanding (and settling) into Europe?
 
Why expand into open step when they could've tried for the riches of the Middle East. They probably considered that option as well when they where moving but why go for the empty regions when Persia was a better prize right?
 
Why expand into open step when they could've tried for the riches of the Middle East. They probably considered that option as well when they where moving but why go for the empty regions when Persia was a better prize right?
Why have burgers when you've got steak at home? :D
 
Would it be plausible for Seljuk and the Oghuz confederacy to conquer the dying Khazars and form their empire around from the former's ashes, eventually expanding (and settling) into Europe?

If so, they would probably form another steppe Empire, and far less focused on settling than controlling tributary territories.
 

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Why expand into open step when they could've tried for the riches of the Middle East. They probably considered that option as well when they where moving but why go for the empty regions when Persia was a better prize right?
Perhaps the Ghaznavids reverse their decline, blocking the initial incursions?

If so, they would probably form another steppe Empire, and far less focused on settling than controlling tributary territories.
Any way to change that into a more sedentary state?
 
Would it be plausible for Seljuk and the Oghuz confederacy to conquer the dying Khazars and form their empire around from the former's ashes, eventually expanding (and settling) into Europe?
Isn't that sort of what the Pechenegs did?
 
Any way to change that into a more sedentary state?

Steppe Empire doesn't mean full nomadic life, Khazars prooved that, but actually design a structure for these states ruling over an huge territory and whom way of life is indeed related to nomadic ways preserved within the ruling elite.

As long that their rule isn't threatened by this way of life (as it was in Arabo-Islamic world where rulership meant eventually to adopt local ways), I don't see a real reason for them to change that.
 
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