In present-day Mongolia." The author likely was from Khorasan and was sent to Record of his visit to the Uyghur capital on the Orkhon, i.e., to Kharabalghasun Minorsky, Tamim ibn Bahr is "the only Muslim traveler who has left a Tamim ibn Bahr According to the Russian Orientalist Vladimir This in addition to housing several key academic institutions garnered the cityĪ worldwide reputation as the "Center of Learning." In 1258, Baghdad wasīaghdad fell as a great city, trade shifted to the successor capitals: Reyy, Significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual center for the Islamic World. Located along the Tigris River, Baghdad evolved into a Largest city in the world from shortly after its foundation until theĬórdoba in Spain.
Indian science into the Arab and Islamic world. Scholars headed to Baghdad from all over theĪbbasid empire, facilitating the introduction of Greek and It was a part of the northeastern periphery of theīaghdad Within a generation of its founding in the 8th century,īaghdad became the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, and a hub of Of its history, but repelled invasions by the Chinese as well as three invasionsīactria (Bactriana or Tukharistan, Tokharistan, (Vietnam was a tributary state to its larger neighbor China for much
Of the Mongol-Yuan Dynasty defeated, but a Mongol supply fleet was alsoĭestroyed. Present-day northern Vietnam, east of Hanoi. The Bach Dang battle took place at the Bach Dang River in They had swept across Tonkin (northern Vietnam), to the South China Sea, taking More.īach Dang is the area where the Mongols were defeated in 1288 after He wasĪble to establish a base in Kabul and conquered much of the Indian subcontinent. Babur was born into an era of dynastic struggles in CentralĪsia and sought rule over the Silk Road cities of Samarkand and Fergana. Geography, the flora and fauna, nomads in their pastures and urban environmentsĮnriched by architecture, music, and the Persian and Turkic literature patronizedīy the Timurids. Of his time, but also extensive descriptive sections on the physical and human There is much on the political and military struggles "Baburnama" offers a highly educated Central Asian Muslim's observations of the Stunning memoir of his early life and strugglesin Central Asia and Afghanistanīefore finally settling in northern India and founding the Mughal Empire. Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (1483-1530) wrote a B - SILK ROAD - SILK ROUTE TRADE & TRAVEL Ī B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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