1. Word List
Timeline
Ilkhanids
Timurids
Mongols
1206 Temujin (Genghis
Khan, r ) forms
confederation of Mongol
tribes, launches armies to
east and west.
1227 Death of Genghis Khan,
who by now has conquered
N. China, overthrown
Qara-Khitai and Khwarazm-
Shahs.

2. Timeline
Mongol expeditions attack Russia
and E. Europe.
1243 Mongols take Asia Minor.
1256 Mongols take Alamut.
1258 Mongols take Baghdad, put ‘Abbasid
caliph al-Musta‘sim (r ) to death.
1260 Mongols take Aleppo, Damascus.

3. Timeline
1260 Mamluks defeat Mongols at ‘Ayn Jalut.
In wake of battle, Baybars takes control of
Mamluk sultanate, rules until 1277.

4. Great Khanate of China and Mongolia
Chaghatay Khanate
Khanate of the Golden Horde
Ilkhanate

5. Word List
Timeline
Hülegü
Ilkhans/
Ilkhanids
Sufis (Muslim
mystics)
iqta‘ (≈fief)
Reign of Ilkhan
Ghazan, who imposes Islam
on Ilkhanate.
Reign of Öljeitü.
Mid-14th century sees
fragmentation of Ilkhanate.

6. Word List
Timeline
Ottomans
Samarqand
Herat
shari‘a
(Islamic Law)
Ulugh Beg
1361 Temür (Tamerlane/
Tamburlaine/Temür the Lame,
r ) comes to power.
1370 Temür takes control of
Transoxania, launches
campaigns to east and west.
Reign of Shah Rukh.

7. Timeline
Reign of Husayn Bayqara.
1510 Persia passes into hands of Safavids.
1526 Babur defeats sultan of Delhi in India,
founds Mughal Empire.
1857 Indian Mutiny/First Indian War of
Independence against British.

8. Word List
Timeline
Ghaznavids
Ghurids
640s Muslim raids into India
begin.
Reign of Mahmud
of Ghazna, who makes first
major Muslim incursions into
India.

9. Timeline
Reign of Ghurid sultan
Muhammad.
1206 Qutb al-Din Aybak assassinates
Muhammad, declares self sultan of Delhi.
Reign of Qutb al-Din.
Sultanate of Delhi in N. India.
Temür raids northern India.

10. Timeline
1526 Babur defeats sultan of Delhi, sets up
Mughal Empire in N. India.
Reign of Babur, first Mughal Emperor.
1529 Babur secures hold on northern India.
Reign of Akbar, who extends
Mughal control over much of India, Pakistan,
Afghanistan, Nepal and Bhutan.

11. Timeline
1658 British establish permanent hold on
Bengal.
Later 17th century: Decline of Mughal state
in wake of campaigns against religious
dissidents.
Mid 18th century: British defeat French to
establish dominance in India.

12. Timeline
May 9th 1857 Outbreak of Indian Mutiny/
First Indian War of Independence.
1858 Death of last Mughal emperor, Bahadur
Shah II, in exile in Burma. Bahadur’s sons are
killed by British troops, and India is added to
the British Empire.
July 1858 End of Indian Mutiny/ First Indian
War of Independence.