ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the origins and history of the Turko-Mongol peoples of the Mongol successor states in Central Asia and the Qipchaq Steppe: the Chaghatays, who founded the Timurid and Mughal empires in Central Asia and South Asia, respectively; the Shibanid Uzbeks, who established several Chinggisid and non-Chinggisid dynasties in Transoxiana, Khorezm, and Ferghana, which lasted until the Russian conquest of Central Asia in the 1860s; the Qazaqs, who resided in and dominated the eastern Qipchaq Steppe (which roughly corresponds to modern-day Kazakhstan) in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the Crimean Tatars, who founded the Crimean Khanate, which was a major power in Eastern Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
