The founding of the centralized state
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Write the stages in the formation of Amir Temur’s state with dates.
1370 Balkh; 1370 Samarkand kurultai; 1372–1388 Khwarazm; 1381 Herat.
2
Write in 3 sentences what a kurultai is and its importance.
An assembly of rulers and nobles; recognition of power and state and army issues were settled.
3
Give one positive and one negative aspect of the centralized state with examples.
Positive: end of fragmentation, trade and building; negative: wars and losses.
4
Mark on a map the lands Temur united in 1370–1388.
Transoxiana, Khorasan, Khwarazm, Tashkent, Fergana.
5
Why could the title Sahibqiran be seen as partly legendary? Write 2–3 sentences.
It rests on a belief about the conjunction of stars; it is a glorifying epithet, not a historical fact.