Iran after the Mongols

Six centuries between the Ilkhanate and the twentieth century: the provincial officers who kept the pieces of a Mongol state working, the Turkmen confederations that fought over the pastures, the dynasty that made Iran Shi'i, and what followed it — an Afghan occupation, a conqueror who took Delhi, a regent who refused the title of shah, and a century spent between two European empires.

The line below is a time axis. Position on it is date, so concurrency is visible: concurrent polities sit side by side rather than in sequence.

10 sourced edges run between this region and another, to Chagatai Khanate, Ilkhanate, Shirvanshahs, Shaybanid Khanate, Mughal Empire, Empire of Trebizond and Artuqid Dynasty. Those are not drawn on this line — a thread that crossed regions would assert a sequence nobody cited — but they are on each polity’s own page.

140015001600170018001900Muzaffarid Dynasty 1314–1340 to 1393Jalayirid Sultanate 1335–1336 to 1410–1432Sarbadars 1337 – 1381Timurid Empire 1370 – 1507Kara Koyunlu 1374 – 1468Ak Koyunlu 1378 to 1501–1508Safavid Empire 1501 – 1736Hotak Dynasty 1709 – 1738Afsharid Dynasty 1736 to 1747–1796Zand Dynasty 1751 – 1794Qajar Dynasty 1789–1796 to 19251381 Timurid Empire absorbed remnants of Sarbadars1393 Muzaffarid Dynasty conquered by Timurid Empire1432 Jalayirid Sultanate conquered by Kara Koyunlu1468 Kara Koyunlu conquered by Ak Koyunlu1501 Safavid Empire absorbed remnants of Timurid Empire1508 Ak Koyunlu conquered by Safavid Empire1722 Hotak Dynasty overthrew Safavid Empire1736 Afsharid Dynasty absorbed remnants of Safavid Empire1738 Hotak Dynasty conquered by Afsharid Dynasty1751 Zand Dynasty absorbed remnants of Afsharid Dynasty1794 Zand Dynasty conquered by Qajar Dynasty1796 Afsharid Dynasty conquered by Qajar Dynasty