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Chagatai Khan

Chagatai Khan (Tsagadai) was the second son of Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan , born , was the founder, Khan and Khagan of the Mongol Empire, the World's largest empires contiguous empire in history....
and first khan

Khan

Khan is an originally Central Asian title for a sovereign or military ruler, first used by medieval Altaic languages nomadic tribes living to the north of China....
and name of the Chagatai Khanate

Chagatai Khanate

The Chagatai Khanate was a Mongol, and later linguistically Turkic languages, khanate that comprised the lands ruled by Chagatai Khan , second son of the Great Khan Genghis Khan, and his descendents and successors....
and the Chagatai language

Chagatai language

The Chagatai language is an extinct Turkic language which was once widely spoken in Central Asia, and remained the shared literary language there until the early twentieth century....
.

He inherited most of what are now the five Central Asia

Central Asia

Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
n states after the death of his father and ruled until his death in 1241. He was also appointed by Genghis Khan to oversee the execution of the Yassa

Yassa

Yassa was a secret written code of law created by Genghis Khan. It was the principal law under the Mongol Empire even though no copies were made available....
, the written code of law created by Genghis Khan, though that lasted only until Genghis Khan was crowned Khan of the Mongol Empire.

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Chagatai Khan (Tsagadai) was the second son of Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan , born , was the founder, Khan and Khagan of the Mongol Empire, the World's largest empires contiguous empire in history....
and first khan

Khan

Chagatai Khanate

Chagatai language

Central Asia

Yassa

Chagatai Khanate

Mongol Empire

The Mongol Empire was the List of largest empires#Contiguous Empires empire and the largest bar none. It emerged from the unification of Mongols and Turkic peoples tribes in modern day Mongolia, and grew through Mongol invasions, after Genghis Khan had been proclaimed ruler of all Mongols in 1206....
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The real founder of the state was Chagatai's grandson Alghu

Alghu

Alghu was a khan of the Chagatai Khanate . He was the son of Baidar and the grandson of Chagatai Khan.In 1260 he was appointed as head of the ulus of the Chagatai Khanate by the Great Khan claimant Ariq B?ke, in opposition to the child khan Mubarak Shah and his mother Orghina....
. The state was much less influenced by Islam than the Ilkhanate

Ilkhanate

The Ilkhanate, also spelled Il-khanate or Il Khanate , was a Mongol khanate established in Persia in the 13th century, considered a part of the Mongol Empire....
to the southeast, but there were Muslims within the state and some did convert. However, they kept to old nomadic traits much longer. Some historians have said this was a major reason for the decline in urbanism and agriculture in this area which is known to have occurred. The first ruler who actually converted to Islam was Mubarak-Shah (note the Arab name). His conversion occurred in 1256, however this was very problematic because in less than 30 years other rulers would renounce Islam and return to older beliefs, however Tarmarshirin converted to Islam and tried to turn the dynasty back toward Islam. His conversion provoked a huge backlash from nomadic groups in the eastern part of the realm who eventually killed him in 1334. After his death the Chagatai state lost its status and disintegrated. Tamerlane would later marry into his family. By the early 1500 they had reasserted themselves in present day Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan , is a Landlocked_country#Doubly_landlocked_country country in Central Asia, formerly part of the Soviet Union....
and continued a realm there till the 1700s Shaybanid

Shaybanid

The Shaybanid dynasty was a 16th-century Uzbeks dynasty founded by Muhammad Shaybani. Speaking more generally, the term Shaybanids refers to all patrilineal descendants of Shiban, the fifth son of Jochi and grandson of Genghis Khan....
ruling house of the Uzbeks

Uzbeks

The Uzbeks are a Turkic peoples people of Central Asia. They comprise the majority population of Uzbekistan, and large populations can also be found in Afghanistan, Tajikstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China....
.

Personal

He was considered hot-headed and somewhat temperamental by his relatives, because of his attitude of absolutely not accepting Jochi

Jochi

Jochi , was the eldest of the Mongols chieftain Genghis Khan's four sons by his principal wife B?rte. An accomplished military leader, he participated in his father's conquest of Central Asia, along with his brothers and uncles....
as Great Khan. He was the most vocal about this topic among his relatives. Chagatai's son Mutugen was killed during the siege of Bamiyan

Bamiyan

Bamyan is the capital of Bamyan Province and the largest town in Hazarajat, central Afghanistan. It has a population of about 61,863 people, and is approximately 240 kilometres north-west of Kabul....
in 1221.