Central Asia in the early modern world (1500 – 1800). Oceans became highways, gunpowder empires rose, and the scientific revolution began. These articles cover the three centuries in which the world's regions first became one system.
Babur lost Samarkand three times, took Kabul in October 1504 without a fight, and beat Ibrahim Lodi at Panipat on April 20, 1526, with 700 roped carts.
· 1504Shah Ismail's Safavid army feigned a retreat outside Merv on December 2, 1510, then cut a bridge and killed Shaybani Khan, founder of the Uzbek state.
· 1510Anthony Jenkinson reached Bukhara on December 23, 1558, for the Muscovy Company, found no trade "worthy the following," and returned to Moscow in 1559.
· 1558The Sher-Dor madrasa in Samarkand carries a portal mosaic of a beast chasing deer under a human-faced sun, built for governor Yalangtush Bahadur by 1636.
· 1636Peter I ordered Prince Bekovich-Cherkassky to turn the Amu Darya and win the khan of Khiva. In 1717 his force was divided into five and destroyed.
· 1717Qianlong's monument, translated by Amiot in 1776, records the Torghuts' eight-month march from the Volga to the Ili in 1771; counts of the dead disagree.
· 1771
