Historical thread1338–1405

Central Asia and the Steppe (14th – mid-15th c.)

Central Asia and the steppe from 1301 to the mid-15th century: the plague of 1338–1339 in the Chüy valley near Lake Issyk-Kul, whose victims, a 2022 ancient-DNA study found, carried the strain ancestral to the Black Death; the break-up of the Chagatai ulus into Moghulistan and Transoxiana; and the rise of Timur, who from Samarkand waged war from the Volga to Delhi and Anatolia and filled his capital with monumental buildings.

4 events · 1 region · Central and Northern Asia

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Plague burials at Kara-Djigach in the Chüy valley1338–1339 · Central and Northern Asia
Tughlugh Timur and the rise of Moghulistanbetween 1347 and 1348 – between 1362 and 1363 · Central and Northern Asia
Rise and campaigns of TimurApril 1370 – between 17 February and 19 February 1405 · Central and Northern Asia
Timur builds the Friday mosque of Samarkand (Bibi-Khanym)May 1399 – between 1404 and 1405 · Central and Northern Asia

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Chagatai KhanateTimurTimurid EmpireMoghulistanTughlugh Timur

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