This man took power in the Fergana Valley at age 12, and just two years later he conquered the capital of his ancestor, Tamerlane, by taking Samarkand, though he lost it soon after.
This man took power in the Fergana Valley at age 12, and just two years later he conquered the capital of his ancestor, Tamerlane, by taking Samarkand, though he lost it soon after. He briefly allied with Ismail I of the Safavid Dynasty to take Bukhara, but then turned south, where he attacked the dynasty of Pashtuns who controlled what is now northern India. In 1526 he destroyed the armies of Ibrahim Lodi at the First Battle of Panipat. FTP who was this grandfather of Akbar who thus established the Mughal Dynasty?
This man took power in the Fergana Valley at age 12, and just two years later he conquered the capital of his ancestor, Tamerlane, by taking Samarkand, though he lost it soon after.
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