| โ | As delightful as it is to watch these daft grandchildren of Tamerlane slaughter each other, it is getting a little boring. It is time to put an end to this juvenile struggle. | โ |
| —Dialogue in Pearl of the East | ||
Shaybani Khan is a mounted archer hero in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Dynasties of India. He has a special model which he shares with Girgen Khan. As a hero, he cannot be converted and can regenerate health.
Campaign appearances[]
Ismail[]
- The Fallen Amir: Shaybani Khan leads the Uzbek Khanate from Merv. A Persian invasion force sent by Ismail must kill him and claim the city as a staging ground from which the Persians can contest with the Uzbeks over Khorasan.
Shaybani Khan is the leader of the Uzbek Khanate in Pearl of the East and The Last Timurids and continuously challenges and taunts Babur. However, he doesn't make a personal appearance.
History[]
Muhammad Shaybani Khan (also known as Abul-Fath Shaybani Khan or Shayabak Khan or Shahi Beg Khan, originally named "Shibรคgh", which means "wormwood" or "obsidian") (c. 1451 โ 2 December 1510), was an Uzbek leader who consolidated various Uzbek tribes and laid the foundations for their ascendance in Transoxiana and the establishment of the Khanate of Bukhara. He was a Shaybanid or descendant of Shiban (or Shayban), the fifth son of Jochi, Genghis Khan's eldest son. He was the son of Shah-Budag, thus a grandson of the Uzbek conqueror Abu'l-Khayr Khan.
He died fighting in battle when Shah Ismail of the Persian Safavid dynasty besieged Merv. Shaybani's harem also included Khanzada Begum, sister of Babur, who was freed by Ismail and sent back to the Mughal Empire. The accounts of Babur, i.e. the Baburnama, state that Ismail beheaded Shaybani and had his skull turned into a bejeweled drinking goblet, which was later sent to Babur as a goodwill gesture.
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