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The Collapse of the Ilkhanate
On the timeline · around 1335 ·
What happened
The Ilkhanate reached a cultured peak in the early 1300s, but when the last effective Ilkhan, Abu Sa'id, died without an heir in 1335, the state rapidly disintegrated. Rival warlords and puppet khans fought over the fragments, and within a generation the Mongol dynasty in Persia had vanished.
Why it matters
The Ilkhanate was the first of the great khanates to fall, its collapse leaving a patchwork of successor states in Persia and the Middle East — and a vacuum that Timur would later fill.