Uzbek Shaybani Khan Consolidates

1508

The Uzbek chieftain Muhammad Shaybani Khan, having earlier driven Babur from Samarkand, consolidated Transoxiana and turned his attention south toward Khorasan. His campaigns destroyed the last remnants of the Timurid dynasty east of the Amu Darya and reshaped Central Asian politics for the coming century. His defeat and death at Shah Ismail's hands two years later established the Amu Darya as the boundary between Safavid and Uzbek territory.