The decline of the Timurid realm
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Compare the rule of Abu Said and Sultan Husayn on 3 points.
Territory (Transoxiana plus Khorasan / Khorasan), length (short / nearly 40 years), result (fragmentation / cultural rise).
2
Write 3 sentences about Navoi’s role in state affairs.
Keeper of the seal, then vizier; a supporter of peace, construction and culture.
3
Make a table of events for 1451–1507.
1451 Samarkand; 1457 Herat; 1469 split; 1500–01 Shaybanids in Samarkand; 1507 Herat.
4
Write the internal causes of the Timurid decline.
Throne struggles, governors’ independence through the suyurghal system, the separation of Khorasan and Transoxiana.
5
Who was Babur? Find a short note and write 2 sentences.
A Timurid prince and poet who later, from Kabul, founded the Mughal state in India (1526).