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Events relating to asia
Craftsmen and treasures arrive in large numbers in Samarkand, sent home from Timur's travels of conquest
The Ottoman sultan Bayazid is defeated and captured near Ankara by Timur, who keeps the sultan in captivity until his death the following year
Timur is buried in a mausoleum (the Gur Amir) in Samarkand, a city which becomes an inspiration to his descendants
Shah Rukh, son of Timur, begins rebuilding the city of Herat
The third Ming emperor moves the capital from Nanjing to Beijing and begins laying out the Forbidden City
The Temple of Heaven in Beijing is built for the third emperor of the Ming dynasty
Zheng He, a Muslim eunuch, makes voyages of trade and exploration with a fleet of Chinese junks
A Muslim ruler is established in Malacca, forming the first of many Muslim dynasties in the Malay archipelago
Herat, under Timurid princes, succeeds Tabriz as the main centre of Persian art
Coffee, derived from wild plants in Ethiopia, is cultivated in Arabia
Christian boys, trained as slaves in the personal service of the Turkish sultan, acquire considerable power as the elite corps of janissaries
Constantinople falls to a 21-year-old Muslim conqueror, Mehmed II, bringing the Ottoman Turks their capital city
The Christian emperor Constantine XI dies in the fighting in Constantinople, as the Greek Byzantine empire yields to that of the Ottoman Turks
Vasco da Gama reaches the southern coast of India, at Calicut, after sailing across the Indian Ocean from east Africa
The lively realism of Kamal-ud-din Bihzad lays the basis of both the Persian and the Mughal schools of painting
Nanak, the first of the Sikh gurus, takes to the road as a wandering teacher
The 14-year-old Ismail I is enthroned as shah of a new Persian dynasty, the Safavids
Vasco da Gama wins a trading treaty for Portuguese merchants after bombarding the Indian port of Calicut into submission
Babur captures Kabul, making it and eastern Afghanistan the first possession of the Mughal empire
The Portuguese establish a presence in Sri Lanka, trading in the island's crop of cinammon
The Portuguese seize Goa and make it their colonial capital in India
The Portuguese take control of Malacca, in the Malay peninsula, as a base for trade further east
The Portuguese make treaties in the Moluccas (or Spice Islands), to trade in cloves and nutmeg
The Portuguese capture Hormuz and establish a garrison to control the Gulf of Oman
The Ottoman sultan, Selim I, captures Cairo and ends Mameluke rule in the middle east
