[Sca-cooks] Moghul Food

[Terry Decker]

Moghul (or Mogol) is a specific reference to the dynasty that ruled Northern 
India from 1526 into the 18th Century.  The dynasty continued its existence 
into the 19th Century as a British controlled monarchy.  Babur who founded 
the dynasty was a Persian of Mongol descent from Genghis Khan on his 
mother's side and Tamerlane on his father's.  He failed in the attempt to 
retake and hold the ancestral empire (Tamerlane's) based in Samakand losing 
Afganistan, Uzbekistan and a few other pieces of real estate.  He led his 
men into Northern India.

Babur had no particular effect on Europe as his conquests come after the 
Europeans began sailing to India and the East.  Tamerlane was a different 
story, first fighting a war and then controlling a large stretch of the Silk 
Road before the fall of Byzantium.  About 100 years later, the Uighurs began 
a continuous conflict with the Chinese effectively closed off the Chinese 
end of the Silk Road and giving impetus to the great Chinese trade fleets.

Bear

> Duriel said:
> > Not 'Mongol'...'Moghul'.  Persia/Afghanistan/India.  Lots of
> cookbooks from there.
>
> Oops. That caught me, too.
>
> When was this culture? Did it really cover Persia/Afghanistan, and I
> assume, parts of northwestern India? What effects did they have upon
> medieval Europe? Other than sitting astride some trade routes, so
> therefor either enhancing of inhibiting trade from the East?
>
> Stefan