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Mongols and the Mongol Empire 499

Around 1390 TAMERLANE, an adventurer, attached
himself to another Mongol dynasty in Turkestan by mar-
riage and reorganized an empire around his capital, at

SAMARKAND. His conquests did not survive him. Other

Mongols recovered Turkestan. Tamerlane’s descendants

went on to found a “Mogul” empire in India.

Jenghiz Khan and his sons by Rashid al-Din (d. 1318), Persian manuscript, Ms. 19157, Sup Pers 113, fol. 44, Bibliothèque
Nationale, Paris (Art Resource)