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Fireblade · 12-12-2003, 01:50

Court of the Khazak Khan

Origin of the Kazakhs and the Formation of the Kazakh Khanate

THE FORMATION OF THE KAZAKH PEOPLE

There is no agreement on how the Kazakh people were formed, largely because of the paucity of contemporary sources. Almost no Europeans traveled to the area, Eastern chroniclers were far more interested in events in the oasis cities than in the lives of the nomadic steppe populations, and the nomads themselves left no legacy apart from a fragmentary, often legendary, oral history. Much of what we know about the formation of the Kazakh people comes from the observations and records of eighteenth-century Russian emissaries and officials who traveled among the Kazakhs during the period of the Russian annexation and conquest.
The consensus is that the Kazakh nation was formed in the mid-fifteenth century when Dzhanibek and Kirai (Girei), sons of Barak Khan of the White Horde of the Mongol empire, broke away from Abulkair, khan of the Uzbeks. Dzhanibek and Kirai sought to capitalize on the power vacuum created by the Abulkair's defeat by the Oirats (Mongols), and they moved with their supporters to western Semirech'e - the land between the Chu and Talas rivers, formerly controlled by the Uzbeks. Here their supporters increased in number, and they established a rival khanate whose center was the Betpak-Dala desert, between the Chu and Sarysu rivers. The territory of the Kazakh khanate continued to expand, so that by the middle of the sixteenth century it included most of the environs of Lake Balkhash and the lands immediately above and below the Syr Darya River, north to the Turgai River, and west to the lands just northwest of the Aral Sea. The Kazakh khanate was a political confederation composed primarily of Turkish-speaking nomadic tribes of Uzbek-Turkic stock (mostly Nogai) that had migrated to the area from Dashti-Qipchak (the Kipchak steppe), and Naiman, Argyn, and Chagatai tribesmen from the Uzbek khanate, as well as some indigenous population. By the time of Kasym Khan (reigned 1511-1523), the Kazakh nation was estimated at over one million people.

The term Kazakh came into use by the residents of the area possibly as early as the end of the fifteenth century and certainly by the mid-sixteenth century. Many theories have been advanced to explain the origin of the term. Some speculate that it comes from the Turkish verb qaz (to wander), because the Kazakhs were wandering steppemen; or that it is the combined form of two Kazakh tribal names, Kaspy and Saki; or that it traces from the Mongol word khasaq (a wheeled cart used by the Kazakhs to transport their yurts [felt tents] and belongings). Another explanation advanced in the nineteenth century is that the term comes from the Turkish work ak (white) and kaz (goose), from a popular Kazakh legend of a white steppe goose that turned into a princess, who is in turn gave birth to the first Kazakh.

The tale of the white goose is only one of the many legends of the formation of the first Kazakh tribe. The most celebrated is that of Alash (or Alach). In most of these tales, Alash is depicted as the founder of the Kazakh people, whose three sons each established one of the three Kazakh hordes. In other tales he is described merely as a great khan whose last direct "descendant," Tokhtamish, was killed at the battle of Saray Su (1395) when Timur (Tamerlan) defeated the Golden Horde. There is no historical evidence for the existence of a Kazakh nation at this time, but the legend of Alash has always played an important unifying role for the Kazakhs; the first Kazakh political party and autonomous Kazakh government (1917) were named the Alash Orda, the Horde of Alash. Despite such legends, it seems quite certain that all claims of consanguinity, of a single people inhabiting this region from antiquity to the present, are spurious.

Archaeology is still young science in Kazakstan. The first excavations were begun in 1940 and the retracing of early steppe life has gone on slowly but steadily since that time. The record of prehistoric life in this area is still a fragmentary one. Campsites dating from the Lower Paleolithic period have been found in caves of the Karatau mountains, and flint scrapers from the Middle Paleolithic period have been found in eastern Kazakstan. Weapons and religious objects from the Paleolithic period have been found in most parts of the Kazakstan, and there appear to have been a large group of settlements around the Aral Sea in the Upper Paleolithic period. Crude weapons from the Upper Paleolithic and weapons and shards of pottery from the Neolithic period have been found in most parts of the steppe. Evidence suggests that some localized livestock breeding and hoe farming began in Aeneolithic epoch (during the fourth and third millenia B.C.), but the first evidence of a widespread and organized pastoral nomadic economy are the relics of the Andronovo culture from the Bronze Age (mid-second to early first millenium B.C.), which are found throughout the steppe. Andronovo settlements of up to forty rectangular, semi-subterranean dwellings have been excavated at Atasu and Karkaralinsk in Karaganda Oblast and Alekseevka in Kustanai Oblast. Remains of primitive mines from this same period have been found in Dzhezkazgan and Zyryanovsk.

During the first millenium B.C., southern Kazakstan came under the control of a group of loosely united, pastoral nomadic tribes of Iranian stock, referred to the Achaemenid uniform texts as Sacae (Scythians). Substantial information about their life-style has been gathered from the contents of kurgans (burial grounds) found in Begaza in central Kazakstan and at several locations in Semirech'e and around the Aral Sea.

In the period 300-200 B.C., the Sacae were gradually overrun by the Usun, a group of allied tribes of pastoral nomads who were Turkic-speaking but of Mongol stock. Accounts of their emergence appear in Chinese sources from the second and first centuries B.C. In the year 73 B.C., the Usun, then headed by a hereditary ruler, the kunmi, were said to number over 600,000. They were divided into two groups, the Kangly (many of whom were sedentary farmers), who lived in the Karatau region and along the middle course of the Syr Darya, and the Alani, who migrated from the northern shores of the Aral Sea to the northern banks of the Caspian Sea. Excavations at Aktyubinsk (on the right bank of Syr Darya) reveal that the Usun erected permanent dwellings as winter residences for tribal notables; the most elaborate of these were two-story dwellings with enclosed courtyards.

The Usun union began to disintegrate in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D., after successive invasions by the Altai Turks. Much of the population remained in the area, but came first under the rule of the western Turkish kaganates (formed from Turkish speaking tribes from the southern Kazakstan and Semirech'e) and then under their successor, the Turgesh kaganate, with its center at Shash, near present-day Tashkent. These kaganates were complex and stratified societies consisting of aristocrats, urban traders, oasis farmers, pastoral nomads, and a professional warrior class sufficiently skilled to prevent the Arab armies from crossing the Syr Darya until A.D. 739.

After the Arabs carved off the southernmost part of the kaganate, the Turgesh were attacked by the Uighurs and then were completely defeated by the Karluks (Turks from western Altai). The Karluk kaganate was established in 766 over all the Turgesh lands except western Kazakstan, whose tribesmen allied themselves with the Oguz state (in what is now Turkmenistan). At its origin the Karluk state went from Kashgaria to the middle course of the Syr Daria. It continued to expand, so that by the tenth century it also encompassed the area between lakes Issyk-Kul and Balkhash as well as the Ili, Chu, and Talas river valleys. Under the Karluks the first large cities were built in the steppe, including Taraz (present day Dzhambul), Isfijab (renamed Sairam), and Farab (renamed Otrar).

In 940, the Karluks lost a dynastic struggle to the Karakhanid family, who ruled the steppe for another two hundred years. In 960 the Karakhanid ruler, called the tamgach khan, embraced Islam and then succeeded in extending this rule over the Muslim populations of the Amu Darya and the lower course of the Syr Darya. The steppe economy flourished under Karakhanid rule; the number of sedentary farmers increased since the system of irrigation was sufficiently advanced to allow for the cultivation of fruits and vegetables as well as grains. Taraz, the Karakhanid capital, developed into a city of more than ten thousand people, and a number of new cities developed along the Syr Darya, including Otrar (the rebuilt Farab), Sygnak, and Suan.

The Seljuk conquest of Transoxiana (also known as Mawarannahr) early in the twelfth century left the Karakhanids vulnerable, and in 1130 the Karakhanids were overthrown by the Karakitae, a Mongol people who invaded from the west. The Karakitae ruled the steppe for nearly a century. In the first decade of the thirteenth century the Naimans and Kerei, Turkic tribes from the Altai, invaded the steppe and overthrew the gur (khan) of the Karakitae. They in turn were quickly defeated by the armies of Chingiz Khan, which conquered Semirech'e in 1218. These armies remained on Naiman land for several years, using it as a launching base for campaigns against the Khwarizm Shah, whose state included Khwarizm (now Khorezm), Mawarannahr, and much of the present-day Iran and Afghanistan. Once the Khwarizm Shah was defeated, the Mongol armies withdrew, leaving only an administrative superstructure behind.

The Mongol conquest did have a disruptive economic effect upon the region, destroying what some historians have considered the preconditions of nationhood that had been present under the Karakhanids and Karakitae (that is, a single language, common economy, and shared way of life). The Mongol invasion also destroyed the Syr Darya River towns and trading posts of Sauran, Otrar, and Sygnak, and with them the sedentary culture that had provided a basis for the unity of these tribes. The Mongol rulers influenced language and culture as well as the social organization of the Turkic tribes of Central Asia. The Kazakh language took on Mongol words, and clan structure was modified to resemble the Mongol ulu (clan) system. Perhaps the longest-lasting innovation of Mongol rule was the application of the Yasa, a codified law based on a combination of customary practice and Muslim precepts, which served as precedent for a Kazakh system of customary law. When Chingiz Khan's empire was distributed among his heirs, the territory of present Kazakstan was divided between his sons, Jochi and Chagatai. Jochi predeceased his father, and so his inheritance (the lands west of the Irtysh River) passed to his son, Batu, who expanded his territory westward and founded the Golden Horde. Chagatai controlled the Semirech'e region as well as western Jungaria (also known as Dzhungaria and later as Kashgaria) and Mawarannahr.

During the first half of the thirteenth century Batu's territories continued to expand westward, but his headquarters remained at Sarai (in the heart of the Dashti-Qipchak), 65 miles north of Astrakhan. The vastness of his holdings made it easy for loyal but independent khanates to emerge within the territory of the Golden Horde. Over the first quarter of the fourteenth century, a semiautonomous Mongol khanate gradually emerged, known as the White Horde (Ak Orda) and encompassing the Syr Darya region. The khan of the White Horde, who wintered around Sygnak, controlled the steppe northwest of the Aral Sea as far as the Ishim and Sarysu rivers. The first khan of the White Horde paid tribute to the khans of the Golden Horde. Eight successive khans tried unsuccessfully to gain complete autonomy for the White Horde, but it was not until 1364 that independence from the Golden Horde was achieved. Even this was short lived, as Tokhtamish (reigned 1381-1395), khan of the Golden Horde, succeeded in reuniting the Golden and White Hordes. This period saw the redevelopment of agriculture, the founding or reconstruction of trading centers in southern Kazakstan, and the re-establishment of a unified and viable economic region in Kazakstan, all necessary preconditions for the emergence of a unified Kazakh people one hundred years later.

The beginning of the fourteenth century also saw the breakup of the Chagatai khanate and the establishment of rival branches of the family in Mawarannahr and newly formed Mughulistan (which included the Ili region, Semirech'e, and Eastern Turkestan). The violent rivalry among these three powers (the White Horde, Mawarannahr, and Mughulistan) made the third quarter of the fourteenth century a period of economic upheaval; trade connections were broken and the agricultural oasis cities (especially Mawarannahr) went into a period of decline. The economic and political stagnation of the region continued; Timur made repeated forays into both the Kazakh steppe and northwestern Mughulistan in the 1370s and 1380s, and in 1395 he defeated Tokhtamish at Sarai Berke. This defeat marked the end of the Mongol rule in Central Asia. The Golden Horde and White Horde quickly broke up. The first two decades of the fifteenth century saw the creation of two new confederations of nomadic Turkish tribes in Central Asia, the Nogai Horde (a union of Kipchak tribes living between the Ural and Volga rivers) and the more important Uzbek khanate (1420), which controlled the steppe land from the headwaters of the Syr Darya river basin to the Aral Sea and north to the Irtysh River. It was in this period that the term Uzbek came into common use to designate the Turkish tribes that migrated over present day Kazakstan and Uzbekistan.

Stability was short lived, however. A rivalry quickly developed between the ruler of the new Uzbek khanate, Barak Khan, and Ulugh beg (Timur's grandson), the ruler of Mawarannahr, who retained control of the Syr Darya river basin. After Barak's death, with the connivance of Ulugh beg, the title of khan passed to Abu'l Khayr (reigned 1428-1468) of the Shayban (Sheiban) family. During Abu'l Khayr's rule the Uzbek khanate became the major power in Central Asia. Abu'l Khayr quickly unified Turkic tribesmen, his northern holdings reaching the border of the khanate of Sibir. He then moved southward toward Mawarannahr. In 1430 Abu'l Khayr captured Khwarizm and Urgench, and by 1442, after capturing the entire Syr Darya region, he had established his capital at Sygnak, the trading center for the steppe oasis communities of Central Asia. Complete control of Mawarannahr eluded him, however. The drive of Abu'l Khayr was thwarted by the emergent Oirat (Mongol) hordes of Mughulistan in the middle of the fifteenth century, who rapidly became a superior military force. The Oirats (also known as Jungars) crossed from Mughulistan to the Dashti-Qipchak, burning the cities and destroying the economy of the area, and then returned to Mongolia. They (and their Kalmyk-Mongol successors) were to pose periodic threats to the Kazakhs until the end of the seventeenth century.

Fireblade · 12-12-2003, 01:54

Borrak Khan

The leader of the Khazak Horde, Borrak Khan, has a long and illustrious past. Borrak, a direct descendent of Genghis Khan, father of the Mongols, has for many years ruled the Khazak Horde since the death of the last Khan. Borrak is well known throughout the Muslim war for his battles against the Venetians in the Great Crusade. In one battle, he personally slew one hundred of the dogs with his bow. His reputation as a warrior is so great, in fact, that his arrows are reputed by the less educated to be blessed by God himself. Borrak is not a very religious man, but he is quite capable of acting as a courageous jihadi when circumstances demand it.

Physically, Borrak Khan is the spitting image of the ideal Mongol warrior. Tall, swarthy, muscular, and good looking. When not clothed in his court robes, and wearing the light armor of a Mongol, his presence is commanding, and both sides awe him.

Fireblade · 12-12-2003, 01:56

Goods produced by the Khazak Horde

-Sheep
-Clothes
-Weapons

Foreign Trade

There are no trade routes at present.

Fireblade · 12-12-2003, 01:57

Foreign Affairs

There are no dealings with foreign powers at this time.

Fireblade · 12-12-2003, 01:59

Borrak Khan stands up and nods.

"I, Borrak Khan, hereby declare this court OPEN!"

Hamilcar · 12-12-2003, 03:52

A rider comes to the Khan's court, presenting a letter to him.

Borrak Khan,

Rumours of the resurgence of power and authority in the land of the Khazak have reached my ear and the name of mighty Borrak, bane of the Christians and follower of Bars is once more heard in my great halls in Samarkand.

As a fellow descendant of the great Ghengiz, I offer you my hand in friendship. Thus, I ask that you send an envoy to Samarkand so that I might know your mind and so we may forge a new alliance of the true descendants of the Great Ghengiz.

By the Hand of,

Yesugai Khan, brother of Hytshtej Khan, son of Unegen Khan, Son of the famed Dsaluu Jambyn slaughter of infidels, Great Khan of the Golden Horde and later Great Khan and founder of the Al-Agta Khanate, son of Ulugh Muhammad the Bagatur of the Golden Horde, the bane of Russians, Poles, Lithuans, Greeks, Turkomen, Arabs and Chinese.

Alex_pharaoh · 12-12-2003, 04:04

A message arrives from the Tashkent:

"Dear Borrak Khan of the Khazaks:

I, Alxud Khan, want to send you a gift for your excellency. My father had a rivality with your Khanate, however we recognize your nation as a sovereign state.

Now, as you may know, the Turkish and Mongol states are unifying into an alliance. For now, at least, it has the Golden Horde, Crimean Khanate, and Uzbek Khanate as part of the alliance, and we expect other nations to join. One of those are yours. The Khazaks are a great people, and we sure would like you to join our alliace of the Khans for the greatness of the whole region.

I also ask for us to start diplomatic relations. So if you would send an emissary to Tashkent, I would be very pleased and would bennefit both our nations.

-Sincerily, Alxud Khan of the Uzbeks."

Friedrich II · 12-12-2003, 04:25

A letter arrives from Samara.

"Borrak, Khan of the Khazaks and my distant relative through Genghis;

The Great Empire has arisen, let us hope that the Khazaks shall return to make an impact on the fate of our region.

By his own hand,

Orda Khân
Akahan of the Great Mongol Empire
Great Khan of the Golden Horde
Son of Baraq, Descendant of Genghis"

Alex_pharaoh · 13-12-2003, 03:27

A letter in reply arrives to the Khazak court:

"To Borrak Khan of the Khazaks:

My actions are limited only to our nation. In the Alliance, you do not only ally the Uzbeks, but also the rest of the Mongol nations. The Mongol and Turkish nations want to create a new unified Mongol Empire, and you as a part of it, as the remainers of the White Horde, and descendant of the glorious ancestor: Gengis Khan.

-Alxud Khan of the Uzbeks."

Hamilcar · 13-12-2003, 04:58

A rider comes to the Khan's court, presenting a letter to him.

Borrak Khan,

Gladly do I offer you my oath in alliance, for one as valiant as Borrak Khan is rare in this decaying world. Make haste for my city of Samarkand, so that we may sign an oath with our blood.

The sons of Ghengis shall ride once more.

By the Hand of,

Yesugai Khan, brother of Hytshtej Khan, son of Unegen Khan, Son of the famed Dsaluu Jambyn slaughter of infidels, Great Khan of the Golden Horde and later Great Khan and founder of the Al-Agta Khanate, son of Ulugh Muhammad the Bagatur of the Golden Horde, the bane of Russians, Poles, Lithuans, Greeks, Turkomen, Arabs and Chinese.

Fireblade · 13-12-2003, 07:05

Borrak Khan reads the letter from the Khan of the Al-Agta Khanate and grins.

"Excellent! We ride for Samarkand tomorrow! Make ready, for we shall show them the power of the Khazakh Horde!"

Borrak Khan, as he began to make arrangements, thought inwardly all day:

Ah, finally.. my ambitions shall be realized, for the power of the Al-Agta Khanate shall be beside me..

Alex_pharaoh · 13-12-2003, 19:13

A message arrived from the Uzbek court from Tashkent for the Khazak Khan visiting Samarakand:

"To Borrak Khan of the Khazaks:

I have read your letter, and I am happy you want decided what you expressed me. However, soon after the letter was recieved to me, I saw from the walls of Tashkent that far away there was a cavalery march southwards towards Samarakand. It is pitty that you haven't decided to rest in Tashkent and discuss our alliance.

Anyway, to save time, I invite you, Khan of the Khazaks, to my magnificent court in Tashkent. You will find it more comfortable to visit Tashkent on your way back to the Khazak lands.

-Sincerily, Alxud Khan of the Uzbeks."

Friedrich II · 13-12-2003, 21:39

A letter arrives from Samara.

Khan of the Khazaks, I am proud to announce the completion of the Imperial Palace at Astrakhan.

The City of Astrakhan now proudly boasts the Capital of the Great Mongol Empire.

As a proud Mongoloid, Your presence is requested at the new Palace for my Coronation as Akahan. If you cannot come personally, the next of Kin would be welcomed in your place.

Orda Khân
Akahan of the Great Mongol Empire
Great Khan of the Golden Horde
Son of Baraq, Descendant of Genghis"

Fireblade · 16-12-2003, 22:44

Today was Friday, the Muslim holy day. The Khazaks were still not fully Islamicized, but many of their Mongol overlords were. As the call to prayer rang out from the minarets throughout the lands ruled by Borrak Khan, a certain mullah, named Serhat, prepared to issue an important fatwa..

Later that day

Mullah Serhat stood before many important tribal leaders, and began to speak.

"Khans! The Khan of the Uzbekhs, the lowly Alxud, has issued a proclaimation granting rights to the lowest of the low, the peasants, and women. This proclaimation is un-Islamic, and against the will of Allah. Therefore, I am issuing this fatwa against Alxud, and I exhort you all to join in a Jihad, a Holy War, against the Uzbek Khan. May Allah grant us victory!"

With a mighty roar, the several hundred tribal leaders stood up, and rushed back to their tribes..

The Khazak Horde is coming.

The next week

A letter arrives to Alxud Khan from Samarkand.

"Alxud, so called Khan of the Uzbeks,

Your reforms are completely unacceptable. Now, the tribesmen of the Khazak Horde descend upon you. I must bow to their wishes. Because of your total ignorance of the ways of Islam, you shall be destroyed. Your apostate ways shall no more taint our steppes. Prepare for war, infidel.

-Borrak Khan"

BzAli · 17-12-2003, 00:01

- EVENT -

Khazak war

Because of your total ignorance of the ways of Islam, you shall be destroyed. Thus wrote Borrak Khan of the Khazaks in a letter to his Sunni brethen in the Uzbekh Horde, and with these words, he plunged the two Sunni-Islamic nations into a war.
Scholars and Imans in the Islamic world hears of these events, and the most common response is wonder.
For what crime did Alxud Khan commit, that displays total ignorance of the ways of Islam?
His only crime was to issue a declaration that granted peasants the same right as nobles. It was a strange thing to do, but hardly against the teachings of the Qu'ran. And to use it as justification of a war against fellow believers is indeed a crime against the words of the Prophet.

TABLE:

1.
Scholars and Imans preach this, and the lower nobility hears them. The population rises in anger against a ruler who abuses the Qu'ran for personal gain.(Minor rebellion triggered)

2.
Many soldiers desert, when they learn the reason for the war.(-1 LM, -1 morale to Khazak Horde for 1 year/4 turns)

3.
The armys looses much faith in their leaders, but fight on, dishearted.(-1 morale)

4.
The soldiers do not care for the finer points of theology. A war is a war, and there are enemies to fight.(no effect)

5.
Many consider it a wise move by Borrak Khan, to attack when the enemy is weak after internal problems.(no effect)

6.
Most nobles of the Khazak Horde supports the declaration of war. The reforms of the Uzbekhs are dangerous to their own rule. (+1 morale to Khazak Horde for 1 year/4 turns)

ROLL: 5
Many consider it a wise move by Borrak Khan, to attack when the enemy is weak after internal problems.

RESULT:
no effect

Alex_pharaoh · 17-12-2003, 00:11

A message arrives from Samara:

"To Borraq Khan:

This is too silly and too risky. A war between our nations just weaken us both. Our brothers to the north is actually at war with the infidels of the Liths. Will we go to war between each other? You forget we are both descendants of the empire of Ghengis Khan? We must stay together, not fight eachother!

-Alxud Khan of the Uzbeks."

Alex_pharaoh · 17-12-2003, 03:27

A message arrives from Alxud Khan's residence in the Golden Horde to Samarakand:

"To Khan of the Timurids and his allies:

Please, your fight is with me, not my Khanate. I beg you to stop this war! I am prepare to appear in your court in Samarakand, and you can do with my head whatever you want, if you leave my people independant. I beg you mercy for my Khanate, for I made a loyal oath to them that I will protect them in any way I can. And right now I am offering to protect them with my life and honor.

-Alxud Khan of the Uzbeks."

Alex_pharaoh · 17-12-2003, 04:11

A secret message arrives only to the eyes of Borrak Khan himself, from an anonimous writer:

"To Borrak Khan of the Khazaks:

Do you believe that the Timurids are your friends? Remember why the war of Khazak and Nogai independance ended? The Timurids were going to conquer the Uzbeks, then Khazaks, and then Nogai, and they wouldn't stop there. They would continue and become the overlords of all the Mongol Empire. What makes you think that the Timurids care about Islam, when he is a pagan anyway?! He will betray you eventually, when they finnish with the Uzbeks. Do you think a man like Agta Khan is a man of his word? After he comes and decapitates his guest? No, Khan of the Khazaks. Your real enemies are not the Uzbeks, they are the Timurids. And the only way to defeat them, is to unite between the Khanates against the Timurids. Once the Uzbeks are defeated, there is no possibility to hold them back. They will continue and continue, and you will be on their way. In the long run, they will betray you just like they did with the almost decapitated friend of the Uzbek Khan.

-Anonimous.

Yoghurt · 17-12-2003, 15:49

A letter arrives from the Caliph in Cairo.

"Honored Khan of the Khazaks,

It is good to see the Khazak Horde rising once again and as a faitfull muslim you are welcome to send your representative before me in Cairo. In order to participate in discussions of religious nature.

I am how ever disturbed about news reaching me stating that you have declared war upon the Uzbekhs due to there un-Islamic reforms. I have to inform you that it is I, the Caliph of Islam and Allahs spokesman, that judge in such issues. If you have any evidence that the Uzbekh Khan actually proceeds in an un-Islamic way then bring them to me. In such a case the Uzbekh Khan will be proclamied Irtidäd and you will have all Dar l Islam supporting you in your attempt to cleans the Uzbekh Khanate. If not, this war is unjust and you will withdraw your war decleration.

My other concern is your ties to the Timurid Khan. A person who by his own words says he is an infidel. If this is true the Timurid Khanate will be proclaimed Dar l Harb and you will do wise to cut your ties to such a nation.

signed by

Maalik Ar Rasheed, Caliph"

Alex_pharaoh · 17-12-2003, 19:58

An anonimous letter arrives to the hands of the Khazak Khan, and the Khazak aristocratic leaders ONLY:

The the Khan of the Khazaks:

I have already sent you a letter some time ago. I am "Muhammed the Uzbek speaker", and I speak for your interest. I must of told you that eliminating the Uzbek Khanate from the map, and allying a treatchorous and infidel man such as Agta Khan. However, right now you have your reputation as a muslim in stake. The caliph is starting to act against Aghta khan and his allies. He will eventually be weak. So if you even win the war, you will be isolated, attacked from all over the world of Islam, in such a way your ally will not be able to controll the situation. Eventualy, you will loose everything and Alxud Khan will laugth at your face when he goes to recover his Khanate. Is that what your nation want?

It doesn't have to end like this. Once the Caliph declared Agta Khan as an excluded part of Dar l Islam, you will have the pretext of joining the Uzbeks in their fight against the infidel leader known as Agta Khan of the Timurids.

-Muhammed the Uzbek Speaker."

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Fireblade EU:M Best Newcomer Sept '04 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: A bunker Posts: 177	Khanate Court of the Khazaks Court of the Khazak Khan Origin of the Kazakhs and the Formation of the Kazakh Khanate THE FORMATION OF THE KAZAKH PEOPLE There is no agreement on how the Kazakh people were formed, largely because of the paucity of contemporary sources. Almost no Europeans traveled to the area, Eastern chroniclers were far more interested in events in the oasis cities than in the lives of the nomadic steppe populations, and the nomads themselves left no legacy apart from a fragmentary, often legendary, oral history. Much of what we know about the formation of the Kazakh people comes from the observations and records of eighteenth-century Russian emissaries and officials who traveled among the Kazakhs during the period of the Russian annexation and conquest. The consensus is that the Kazakh nation was formed in the mid-fifteenth century when Dzhanibek and Kirai (Girei), sons of Barak Khan of the White Horde of the Mongol empire, broke away from Abulkair, khan of the Uzbeks. Dzhanibek and Kirai sought to capitalize on the power vacuum created by the Abulkair's defeat by the Oirats (Mongols), and they moved with their supporters to western Semirech'e - the land between the Chu and Talas rivers, formerly controlled by the Uzbeks. Here their supporters increased in number, and they established a rival khanate whose center was the Betpak-Dala desert, between the Chu and Sarysu rivers. The territory of the Kazakh khanate continued to expand, so that by the middle of the sixteenth century it included most of the environs of Lake Balkhash and the lands immediately above and below the Syr Darya River, north to the Turgai River, and west to the lands just northwest of the Aral Sea. The Kazakh khanate was a political confederation composed primarily of Turkish-speaking nomadic tribes of Uzbek-Turkic stock (mostly Nogai) that had migrated to the area from Dashti-Qipchak (the Kipchak steppe), and Naiman, Argyn, and Chagatai tribesmen from the Uzbek khanate, as well as some indigenous population. By the time of Kasym Khan (reigned 1511-1523), the Kazakh nation was estimated at over one million people. The term Kazakh came into use by the residents of the area possibly as early as the end of the fifteenth century and certainly by the mid-sixteenth century. Many theories have been advanced to explain the origin of the term. Some speculate that it comes from the Turkish verb qaz (to wander), because the Kazakhs were wandering steppemen; or that it is the combined form of two Kazakh tribal names, Kaspy and Saki; or that it traces from the Mongol word khasaq (a wheeled cart used by the Kazakhs to transport their yurts [felt tents] and belongings). Another explanation advanced in the nineteenth century is that the term comes from the Turkish work ak (white) and kaz (goose), from a popular Kazakh legend of a white steppe goose that turned into a princess, who is in turn gave birth to the first Kazakh. The tale of the white goose is only one of the many legends of the formation of the first Kazakh tribe. The most celebrated is that of Alash (or Alach). In most of these tales, Alash is depicted as the founder of the Kazakh people, whose three sons each established one of the three Kazakh hordes. In other tales he is described merely as a great khan whose last direct "descendant," Tokhtamish, was killed at the battle of Saray Su (1395) when Timur (Tamerlan) defeated the Golden Horde. There is no historical evidence for the existence of a Kazakh nation at this time, but the legend of Alash has always played an important unifying role for the Kazakhs; the first Kazakh political party and autonomous Kazakh government (1917) were named the Alash Orda, the Horde of Alash. Despite such legends, it seems quite certain that all claims of consanguinity, of a single people inhabiting this region from antiquity to the present, are spurious. Archaeology is still young science in Kazakstan. The first excavations were begun in 1940 and the retracing of early steppe life has gone on slowly but steadily since that time. The record of prehistoric life in this area is still a fragmentary one. Campsites dating from the Lower Paleolithic period have been found in caves of the Karatau mountains, and flint scrapers from the Middle Paleolithic period have been found in eastern Kazakstan. Weapons and religious objects from the Paleolithic period have been found in most parts of the Kazakstan, and there appear to have been a large group of settlements around the Aral Sea in the Upper Paleolithic period. Crude weapons from the Upper Paleolithic and weapons and shards of pottery from the Neolithic period have been found in most parts of the steppe. Evidence suggests that some localized livestock breeding and hoe farming began in Aeneolithic epoch (during the fourth and third millenia B.C.), but the first evidence of a widespread and organized pastoral nomadic economy are the relics of the Andronovo culture from the Bronze Age (mid-second to early first millenium B.C.), which are found throughout the steppe. Andronovo settlements of up to forty rectangular, semi-subterranean dwellings have been excavated at Atasu and Karkaralinsk in Karaganda Oblast and Alekseevka in Kustanai Oblast. Remains of primitive mines from this same period have been found in Dzhezkazgan and Zyryanovsk. During the first millenium B.C., southern Kazakstan came under the control of a group of loosely united, pastoral nomadic tribes of Iranian stock, referred to the Achaemenid uniform texts as Sacae (Scythians). Substantial information about their life-style has been gathered from the contents of kurgans (burial grounds) found in Begaza in central Kazakstan and at several locations in Semirech'e and around the Aral Sea. In the period 300-200 B.C., the Sacae were gradually overrun by the Usun, a group of allied tribes of pastoral nomads who were Turkic-speaking but of Mongol stock. Accounts of their emergence appear in Chinese sources from the second and first centuries B.C. In the year 73 B.C., the Usun, then headed by a hereditary ruler, the kunmi, were said to number over 600,000. They were divided into two groups, the Kangly (many of whom were sedentary farmers), who lived in the Karatau region and along the middle course of the Syr Darya, and the Alani, who migrated from the northern shores of the Aral Sea to the northern banks of the Caspian Sea. Excavations at Aktyubinsk (on the right bank of Syr Darya) reveal that the Usun erected permanent dwellings as winter residences for tribal notables; the most elaborate of these were two-story dwellings with enclosed courtyards. The Usun union began to disintegrate in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D., after successive invasions by the Altai Turks. Much of the population remained in the area, but came first under the rule of the western Turkish kaganates (formed from Turkish speaking tribes from the southern Kazakstan and Semirech'e) and then under their successor, the Turgesh kaganate, with its center at Shash, near present-day Tashkent. These kaganates were complex and stratified societies consisting of aristocrats, urban traders, oasis farmers, pastoral nomads, and a professional warrior class sufficiently skilled to prevent the Arab armies from crossing the Syr Darya until A.D. 739. After the Arabs carved off the southernmost part of the kaganate, the Turgesh were attacked by the Uighurs and then were completely defeated by the Karluks (Turks from western Altai). The Karluk kaganate was established in 766 over all the Turgesh lands except western Kazakstan, whose tribesmen allied themselves with the Oguz state (in what is now Turkmenistan). At its origin the Karluk state went from Kashgaria to the middle course of the Syr Daria. It continued to expand, so that by the tenth century it also encompassed the area between lakes Issyk-Kul and Balkhash as well as the Ili, Chu, and Talas river valleys. Under the Karluks the first large cities were built in the steppe, including Taraz (present day Dzhambul), Isfijab (renamed Sairam), and Farab (renamed Otrar). In 940, the Karluks lost a dynastic struggle to the Karakhanid family, who ruled the steppe for another two hundred years. In 960 the Karakhanid ruler, called the tamgach khan, embraced Islam and then succeeded in extending this rule over the Muslim populations of the Amu Darya and the lower course of the Syr Darya. The steppe economy flourished under Karakhanid rule; the number of sedentary farmers increased since the system of irrigation was sufficiently advanced to allow for the cultivation of fruits and vegetables as well as grains. Taraz, the Karakhanid capital, developed into a city of more than ten thousand people, and a number of new cities developed along the Syr Darya, including Otrar (the rebuilt Farab), Sygnak, and Suan. The Seljuk conquest of Transoxiana (also known as Mawarannahr) early in the twelfth century left the Karakhanids vulnerable, and in 1130 the Karakhanids were overthrown by the Karakitae, a Mongol people who invaded from the west. The Karakitae ruled the steppe for nearly a century. In the first decade of the thirteenth century the Naimans and Kerei, Turkic tribes from the Altai, invaded the steppe and overthrew the gur (khan) of the Karakitae. They in turn were quickly defeated by the armies of Chingiz Khan, which conquered Semirech'e in 1218. These armies remained on Naiman land for several years, using it as a launching base for campaigns against the Khwarizm Shah, whose state included Khwarizm (now Khorezm), Mawarannahr, and much of the present-day Iran and Afghanistan. Once the Khwarizm Shah was defeated, the Mongol armies withdrew, leaving only an administrative superstructure behind. The Mongol conquest did have a disruptive economic effect upon the region, destroying what some historians have considered the preconditions of nationhood that had been present under the Karakhanids and Karakitae (that is, a single language, common economy, and shared way of life). The Mongol invasion also destroyed the Syr Darya River towns and trading posts of Sauran, Otrar, and Sygnak, and with them the sedentary culture that had provided a basis for the unity of these tribes. The Mongol rulers influenced language and culture as well as the social organization of the Turkic tribes of Central Asia. The Kazakh language took on Mongol words, and clan structure was modified to resemble the Mongol ulu (clan) system. Perhaps the longest-lasting innovation of Mongol rule was the application of the Yasa, a codified law based on a combination of customary practice and Muslim precepts, which served as precedent for a Kazakh system of customary law. When Chingiz Khan's empire was distributed among his heirs, the territory of present Kazakstan was divided between his sons, Jochi and Chagatai. Jochi predeceased his father, and so his inheritance (the lands west of the Irtysh River) passed to his son, Batu, who expanded his territory westward and founded the Golden Horde. Chagatai controlled the Semirech'e region as well as western Jungaria (also known as Dzhungaria and later as Kashgaria) and Mawarannahr. During the first half of the thirteenth century Batu's territories continued to expand westward, but his headquarters remained at Sarai (in the heart of the Dashti-Qipchak), 65 miles north of Astrakhan. The vastness of his holdings made it easy for loyal but independent khanates to emerge within the territory of the Golden Horde. Over the first quarter of the fourteenth century, a semiautonomous Mongol khanate gradually emerged, known as the White Horde (Ak Orda) and encompassing the Syr Darya region. The khan of the White Horde, who wintered around Sygnak, controlled the steppe northwest of the Aral Sea as far as the Ishim and Sarysu rivers. The first khan of the White Horde paid tribute to the khans of the Golden Horde. Eight successive khans tried unsuccessfully to gain complete autonomy for the White Horde, but it was not until 1364 that independence from the Golden Horde was achieved. Even this was short lived, as Tokhtamish (reigned 1381-1395), khan of the Golden Horde, succeeded in reuniting the Golden and White Hordes. This period saw the redevelopment of agriculture, the founding or reconstruction of trading centers in southern Kazakstan, and the re-establishment of a unified and viable economic region in Kazakstan, all necessary preconditions for the emergence of a unified Kazakh people one hundred years later. The beginning of the fourteenth century also saw the breakup of the Chagatai khanate and the establishment of rival branches of the family in Mawarannahr and newly formed Mughulistan (which included the Ili region, Semirech'e, and Eastern Turkestan). The violent rivalry among these three powers (the White Horde, Mawarannahr, and Mughulistan) made the third quarter of the fourteenth century a period of economic upheaval; trade connections were broken and the agricultural oasis cities (especially Mawarannahr) went into a period of decline. The economic and political stagnation of the region continued; Timur made repeated forays into both the Kazakh steppe and northwestern Mughulistan in the 1370s and 1380s, and in 1395 he defeated Tokhtamish at Sarai Berke. This defeat marked the end of the Mongol rule in Central Asia. The Golden Horde and White Horde quickly broke up. The first two decades of the fifteenth century saw the creation of two new confederations of nomadic Turkish tribes in Central Asia, the Nogai Horde (a union of Kipchak tribes living between the Ural and Volga rivers) and the more important Uzbek khanate (1420), which controlled the steppe land from the headwaters of the Syr Darya river basin to the Aral Sea and north to the Irtysh River. It was in this period that the term Uzbek came into common use to designate the Turkish tribes that migrated over present day Kazakstan and Uzbekistan. Stability was short lived, however. A rivalry quickly developed between the ruler of the new Uzbek khanate, Barak Khan, and Ulugh beg (Timur's grandson), the ruler of Mawarannahr, who retained control of the Syr Darya river basin. After Barak's death, with the connivance of Ulugh beg, the title of khan passed to Abu'l Khayr (reigned 1428-1468) of the Shayban (Sheiban) family. During Abu'l Khayr's rule the Uzbek khanate became the major power in Central Asia. Abu'l Khayr quickly unified Turkic tribesmen, his northern holdings reaching the border of the khanate of Sibir. He then moved southward toward Mawarannahr. In 1430 Abu'l Khayr captured Khwarizm and Urgench, and by 1442, after capturing the entire Syr Darya region, he had established his capital at Sygnak, the trading center for the steppe oasis communities of Central Asia. Complete control of Mawarannahr eluded him, however. The drive of Abu'l Khayr was thwarted by the emergent Oirat (Mongol) hordes of Mughulistan in the middle of the fifteenth century, who rapidly became a superior military force. The Oirats (also known as Jungars) crossed from Mughulistan to the Dashti-Qipchak, burning the cities and destroying the economy of the area, and then returned to Mongolia. They (and their Kalmyk-Mongol successors) were to pose periodic threats to the Kazakhs until the end of the seventeenth century. __________________ Senatus Populesque Americanus Petrarch says: I have to admit, you're damn good Ρήγας Kροισος Μαεονια \| King Croesus of Lydia Last edited by Fireblade; 12-12-2003 at 03:24.

12-12-2003, 01:54	#2
Fireblade EU:M Best Newcomer Sept '04 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: A bunker Posts: 177	Borrak Khan The leader of the Khazak Horde, Borrak Khan, has a long and illustrious past. Borrak, a direct descendent of Genghis Khan, father of the Mongols, has for many years ruled the Khazak Horde since the death of the last Khan. Borrak is well known throughout the Muslim war for his battles against the Venetians in the Great Crusade. In one battle, he personally slew one hundred of the dogs with his bow. His reputation as a warrior is so great, in fact, that his arrows are reputed by the less educated to be blessed by God himself. Borrak is not a very religious man, but he is quite capable of acting as a courageous jihadi when circumstances demand it. Physically, Borrak Khan is the spitting image of the ideal Mongol warrior. Tall, swarthy, muscular, and good looking. When not clothed in his court robes, and wearing the light armor of a Mongol, his presence is commanding, and both sides awe him. __________________ Senatus Populesque Americanus Petrarch says: I have to admit, you're damn good Ρήγας Kροισος Μαεονια \| King Croesus of Lydia Last edited by Fireblade; 12-12-2003 at 03:36.

12-12-2003, 01:56	#3
Fireblade EU:M Best Newcomer Sept '04 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: A bunker Posts: 177	Goods produced by the Khazak Horde -Sheep -Clothes -Weapons Foreign Trade There are no trade routes at present. __________________ Senatus Populesque Americanus Petrarch says: I have to admit, you're damn good Ρήγας Kροισος Μαεονια \| King Croesus of Lydia Last edited by Fireblade; 12-12-2003 at 03:41.

12-12-2003, 01:57	#4
Fireblade EU:M Best Newcomer Sept '04 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: A bunker Posts: 177	Foreign Affairs There are no dealings with foreign powers at this time. __________________ Senatus Populesque Americanus Petrarch says: I have to admit, you're damn good Ρήγας Kροισος Μαεονια \| King Croesus of Lydia Last edited by Fireblade; 12-12-2003 at 03:41.

12-12-2003, 01:59	#5
Fireblade EU:M Best Newcomer Sept '04 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: A bunker Posts: 177	Borrak Khan stands up and nods. "I, Borrak Khan, hereby declare this court OPEN!" __________________ Senatus Populesque Americanus Petrarch says: I have to admit, you're damn good Ρήγας Kροισος Μαεονια \| King Croesus of Lydia Last edited by Fireblade; 12-12-2003 at 03:42.

12-12-2003, 03:52	#6
Hamilcar El Rey Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: in transit Posts: 325	A rider comes to the Khan's court, presenting a letter to him. Borrak Khan, Rumours of the resurgence of power and authority in the land of the Khazak have reached my ear and the name of mighty Borrak, bane of the Christians and follower of Bars is once more heard in my great halls in Samarkand. As a fellow descendant of the great Ghengiz, I offer you my hand in friendship. Thus, I ask that you send an envoy to Samarkand so that I might know your mind and so we may forge a new alliance of the true descendants of the Great Ghengiz. By the Hand of, Yesugai Khan, brother of Hytshtej Khan, son of Unegen Khan, Son of the famed Dsaluu Jambyn slaughter of infidels, Great Khan of the Golden Horde and later Great Khan and founder of the Al-Agta Khanate, son of Ulugh Muhammad the Bagatur of the Golden Horde, the bane of Russians, Poles, Lithuans, Greeks, Turkomen, Arabs and Chinese. __________________ The 2nd Law of Paradox OT: All discussions on politics degenerate either into a transatlantic flamewar or a treatise on the American Civil War. --Me Par la moustache de Pleksy Gladz! General of the Glorious Armies of Qart Hadasht, defeater of Nubians, Romans and other scum. Beta tester for: Chariots of War, Crown of the North/Svea Rike III

12-12-2003, 04:04	#7
Alex_pharaoh Ruler of the Two Lands Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Somewhere else Posts: 141	A message arrives from the Tashkent: "Dear Borrak Khan of the Khazaks: I, Alxud Khan, want to send you a gift for your excellency. My father had a rivality with your Khanate, however we recognize your nation as a sovereign state. Now, as you may know, the Turkish and Mongol states are unifying into an alliance. For now, at least, it has the Golden Horde, Crimean Khanate, and Uzbek Khanate as part of the alliance, and we expect other nations to join. One of those are yours. The Khazaks are a great people, and we sure would like you to join our alliace of the Khans for the greatness of the whole region. I also ask for us to start diplomatic relations. So if you would send an emissary to Tashkent, I would be very pleased and would bennefit both our nations. -Sincerily, Alxud Khan of the Uzbeks." __________________ The power of the living Horus is great enougth to banish the caos of Seth and estabilish the laws of Maat that all shall obey: Respect, Life, Humility and above all Justice. ------------------------------------------------ Withness the return of the Ottoman Empire and it's power with the Sultan Ahmed I Osmanli, in 1558/Barroque RPG.

12-12-2003, 04:25	#8
Friedrich II STUPOR MUNDI Join Date: May 2003 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 677	A letter arrives from Samara. "Borrak, Khan of the Khazaks and my distant relative through Genghis; The Great Empire has arisen, let us hope that the Khazaks shall return to make an impact on the fate of our region. By his own hand, Orda Khân Akahan of the Great Mongol Empire Great Khan of the Golden Horde Son of Baraq, Descendant of Genghis"

13-12-2003, 03:27	#9
Alex_pharaoh Ruler of the Two Lands Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Somewhere else Posts: 141	A letter in reply arrives to the Khazak court: "To Borrak Khan of the Khazaks: My actions are limited only to our nation. In the Alliance, you do not only ally the Uzbeks, but also the rest of the Mongol nations. The Mongol and Turkish nations want to create a new unified Mongol Empire, and you as a part of it, as the remainers of the White Horde, and descendant of the glorious ancestor: Gengis Khan. -Alxud Khan of the Uzbeks." __________________ The power of the living Horus is great enougth to banish the caos of Seth and estabilish the laws of Maat that all shall obey: Respect, Life, Humility and above all Justice. ------------------------------------------------ Withness the return of the Ottoman Empire and it's power with the Sultan Ahmed I Osmanli, in 1558/Barroque RPG.

13-12-2003, 04:58	#10
Hamilcar El Rey Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: in transit Posts: 325	A rider comes to the Khan's court, presenting a letter to him. Borrak Khan, Gladly do I offer you my oath in alliance, for one as valiant as Borrak Khan is rare in this decaying world. Make haste for my city of Samarkand, so that we may sign an oath with our blood. The sons of Ghengis shall ride once more. By the Hand of, Yesugai Khan, brother of Hytshtej Khan, son of Unegen Khan, Son of the famed Dsaluu Jambyn slaughter of infidels, Great Khan of the Golden Horde and later Great Khan and founder of the Al-Agta Khanate, son of Ulugh Muhammad the Bagatur of the Golden Horde, the bane of Russians, Poles, Lithuans, Greeks, Turkomen, Arabs and Chinese. __________________ The 2nd Law of Paradox OT: All discussions on politics degenerate either into a transatlantic flamewar or a treatise on the American Civil War. --Me Par la moustache de Pleksy Gladz! General of the Glorious Armies of Qart Hadasht, defeater of Nubians, Romans and other scum. Beta tester for: Chariots of War, Crown of the North/Svea Rike III

13-12-2003, 07:05	#11
Fireblade EU:M Best Newcomer Sept '04 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: A bunker Posts: 177	Borrak Khan reads the letter from the Khan of the Al-Agta Khanate and grins. "Excellent! We ride for Samarkand tomorrow! Make ready, for we shall show them the power of the Khazakh Horde!" Borrak Khan, as he began to make arrangements, thought inwardly all day: Ah, finally.. my ambitions shall be realized, for the power of the Al-Agta Khanate shall be beside me.. __________________ Senatus Populesque Americanus Petrarch says: I have to admit, you're damn good Ρήγας Kροισος Μαεονια \| King Croesus of Lydia

13-12-2003, 19:13	#12
Alex_pharaoh Ruler of the Two Lands Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Somewhere else Posts: 141	A message arrived from the Uzbek court from Tashkent for the Khazak Khan visiting Samarakand: "To Borrak Khan of the Khazaks: I have read your letter, and I am happy you want decided what you expressed me. However, soon after the letter was recieved to me, I saw from the walls of Tashkent that far away there was a cavalery march southwards towards Samarakand. It is pitty that you haven't decided to rest in Tashkent and discuss our alliance. Anyway, to save time, I invite you, Khan of the Khazaks, to my magnificent court in Tashkent. You will find it more comfortable to visit Tashkent on your way back to the Khazak lands. -Sincerily, Alxud Khan of the Uzbeks." __________________ The power of the living Horus is great enougth to banish the caos of Seth and estabilish the laws of Maat that all shall obey: Respect, Life, Humility and above all Justice. ------------------------------------------------ Withness the return of the Ottoman Empire and it's power with the Sultan Ahmed I Osmanli, in 1558/Barroque RPG.

13-12-2003, 21:39	#13
Friedrich II STUPOR MUNDI Join Date: May 2003 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 677	A letter arrives from Samara. Khan of the Khazaks, I am proud to announce the completion of the Imperial Palace at Astrakhan. The City of Astrakhan now proudly boasts the Capital of the Great Mongol Empire. As a proud Mongoloid, Your presence is requested at the new Palace for my Coronation as Akahan. If you cannot come personally, the next of Kin would be welcomed in your place. Orda Khân Akahan of the Great Mongol Empire Great Khan of the Golden Horde Son of Baraq, Descendant of Genghis"

16-12-2003, 22:44	#14
Fireblade EU:M Best Newcomer Sept '04 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: A bunker Posts: 177	Today was Friday, the Muslim holy day. The Khazaks were still not fully Islamicized, but many of their Mongol overlords were. As the call to prayer rang out from the minarets throughout the lands ruled by Borrak Khan, a certain mullah, named Serhat, prepared to issue an important fatwa.. Later that day Mullah Serhat stood before many important tribal leaders, and began to speak. "Khans! The Khan of the Uzbekhs, the lowly Alxud, has issued a proclaimation granting rights to the lowest of the low, the peasants, and women. This proclaimation is un-Islamic, and against the will of Allah. Therefore, I am issuing this fatwa against Alxud, and I exhort you all to join in a Jihad, a Holy War, against the Uzbek Khan. May Allah grant us victory!" With a mighty roar, the several hundred tribal leaders stood up, and rushed back to their tribes.. The Khazak Horde is coming. The next week A letter arrives to Alxud Khan from Samarkand. "Alxud, so called Khan of the Uzbeks, Your reforms are completely unacceptable. Now, the tribesmen of the Khazak Horde descend upon you. I must bow to their wishes. Because of your total ignorance of the ways of Islam, you shall be destroyed. Your apostate ways shall no more taint our steppes. Prepare for war, infidel. -Borrak Khan" __________________ Senatus Populesque Americanus Petrarch says: I have to admit, you're damn good Ρήγας Kροισος Μαεονια \| King Croesus of Lydia

17-12-2003, 00:01	#15
BzAli Retired RPG-*** Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Teachers College, Aarhus, Denmark Posts: 337	- EVENT - Khazak war Because of your total ignorance of the ways of Islam, you shall be destroyed. Thus wrote Borrak Khan of the Khazaks in a letter to his Sunni brethen in the Uzbekh Horde, and with these words, he plunged the two Sunni-Islamic nations into a war. Scholars and Imans in the Islamic world hears of these events, and the most common response is wonder. For what crime did Alxud Khan commit, that displays total ignorance of the ways of Islam? His only crime was to issue a declaration that granted peasants the same right as nobles. It was a strange thing to do, but hardly against the teachings of the Qu'ran. And to use it as justification of a war against fellow believers is indeed a crime against the words of the Prophet. TABLE: 1. Scholars and Imans preach this, and the lower nobility hears them. The population rises in anger against a ruler who abuses the Qu'ran for personal gain.(Minor rebellion triggered) 2. Many soldiers desert, when they learn the reason for the war.(-1 LM, -1 morale to Khazak Horde for 1 year/4 turns) 3. The armys looses much faith in their leaders, but fight on, dishearted.(-1 morale) 4. The soldiers do not care for the finer points of theology. A war is a war, and there are enemies to fight.(no effect) 5. Many consider it a wise move by Borrak Khan, to attack when the enemy is weak after internal problems.(no effect) 6. Most nobles of the Khazak Horde supports the declaration of war. The reforms of the Uzbekhs are dangerous to their own rule. (+1 morale to Khazak Horde for 1 year/4 turns) ROLL: 5 Many consider it a wise move by Borrak Khan, to attack when the enemy is weak after internal problems. RESULT: no effect __________________ Ah, this brings backs memories...

17-12-2003, 00:11	#16
Alex_pharaoh Ruler of the Two Lands Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Somewhere else Posts: 141	A message arrives from Samara: "To Borraq Khan: This is too silly and too risky. A war between our nations just weaken us both. Our brothers to the north is actually at war with the infidels of the Liths. Will we go to war between each other? You forget we are both descendants of the empire of Ghengis Khan? We must stay together, not fight eachother! -Alxud Khan of the Uzbeks." __________________ The power of the living Horus is great enougth to banish the caos of Seth and estabilish the laws of Maat that all shall obey: Respect, Life, Humility and above all Justice. ------------------------------------------------ Withness the return of the Ottoman Empire and it's power with the Sultan Ahmed I Osmanli, in 1558/Barroque RPG.

17-12-2003, 03:27	#17
Alex_pharaoh Ruler of the Two Lands Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Somewhere else Posts: 141	A message arrives from Alxud Khan's residence in the Golden Horde to Samarakand: "To Khan of the Timurids and his allies: Please, your fight is with me, not my Khanate. I beg you to stop this war! I am prepare to appear in your court in Samarakand, and you can do with my head whatever you want, if you leave my people independant. I beg you mercy for my Khanate, for I made a loyal oath to them that I will protect them in any way I can. And right now I am offering to protect them with my life and honor. -Alxud Khan of the Uzbeks." __________________ The power of the living Horus is great enougth to banish the caos of Seth and estabilish the laws of Maat that all shall obey: Respect, Life, Humility and above all Justice. ------------------------------------------------ Withness the return of the Ottoman Empire and it's power with the Sultan Ahmed I Osmanli, in 1558/Barroque RPG.

17-12-2003, 04:11	#18
Alex_pharaoh Ruler of the Two Lands Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Somewhere else Posts: 141	A secret message arrives only to the eyes of Borrak Khan himself, from an anonimous writer: "To Borrak Khan of the Khazaks: Do you believe that the Timurids are your friends? Remember why the war of Khazak and Nogai independance ended? The Timurids were going to conquer the Uzbeks, then Khazaks, and then Nogai, and they wouldn't stop there. They would continue and become the overlords of all the Mongol Empire. What makes you think that the Timurids care about Islam, when he is a pagan anyway?! He will betray you eventually, when they finnish with the Uzbeks. Do you think a man like Agta Khan is a man of his word? After he comes and decapitates his guest? No, Khan of the Khazaks. Your real enemies are not the Uzbeks, they are the Timurids. And the only way to defeat them, is to unite between the Khanates against the Timurids. Once the Uzbeks are defeated, there is no possibility to hold them back. They will continue and continue, and you will be on their way. In the long run, they will betray you just like they did with the almost decapitated friend of the Uzbek Khan. -Anonimous. __________________ The power of the living Horus is great enougth to banish the caos of Seth and estabilish the laws of Maat that all shall obey: Respect, Life, Humility and above all Justice. ------------------------------------------------ Withness the return of the Ottoman Empire and it's power with the Sultan Ahmed I Osmanli, in 1558/Barroque RPG.

17-12-2003, 15:49	#19
Yoghurt a.k.a. Sole Defender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Yogutopia Posts: 1,702	A letter arrives from the Caliph in Cairo. "Honored Khan of the Khazaks, It is good to see the Khazak Horde rising once again and as a faitfull muslim you are welcome to send your representative before me in Cairo. In order to participate in discussions of religious nature. I am how ever disturbed about news reaching me stating that you have declared war upon the Uzbekhs due to there un-Islamic reforms. I have to inform you that it is I, the Caliph of Islam and Allahs spokesman, that judge in such issues. If you have any evidence that the Uzbekh Khan actually proceeds in an un-Islamic way then bring them to me. In such a case the Uzbekh Khan will be proclamied Irtidäd and you will have all Dar l Islam supporting you in your attempt to cleans the Uzbekh Khanate. If not, this war is unjust and you will withdraw your war decleration. My other concern is your ties to the Timurid Khan. A person who by his own words says he is an infidel. If this is true the Timurid Khanate will be proclaimed Dar l Harb and you will do wise to cut your ties to such a nation. signed by Maalik Ar Rasheed, Caliph" __________________ ..........

17-12-2003, 19:58	#20
Alex_pharaoh Ruler of the Two Lands Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Somewhere else Posts: 141	An anonimous letter arrives to the hands of the Khazak Khan, and the Khazak aristocratic leaders ONLY: The the Khan of the Khazaks: I have already sent you a letter some time ago. I am "Muhammed the Uzbek speaker", and I speak for your interest. I must of told you that eliminating the Uzbek Khanate from the map, and allying a treatchorous and infidel man such as Agta Khan. However, right now you have your reputation as a muslim in stake. The caliph is starting to act against Aghta khan and his allies. He will eventually be weak. So if you even win the war, you will be isolated, attacked from all over the world of Islam, in such a way your ally will not be able to controll the situation. Eventualy, you will loose everything and Alxud Khan will laugth at your face when he goes to recover his Khanate. Is that what your nation want? It doesn't have to end like this. Once the Caliph declared Agta Khan as an excluded part of Dar l Islam, you will have the pretext of joining the Uzbeks in their fight against the infidel leader known as Agta Khan of the Timurids. -Muhammed the Uzbek Speaker." __________________ The power of the living Horus is great enougth to banish the caos of Seth and estabilish the laws of Maat that all shall obey: Respect, Life, Humility and above all Justice. ------------------------------------------------ Withness the return of the Ottoman Empire and it's power with the Sultan Ahmed I Osmanli, in 1558/Barroque RPG.