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An architectural style named for this empire pioneered polychromic bannā’i tilework and fluted turquoise onion double domes, starting with the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi in 1389. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this empire that built the Bībī Khānum Mosque and the Gōr-i Amīr Mausoleum in Samarkand during its namesake renaissance. This empire’s eponymous founder was a “lame” Turco-Mongol conqueror.
ANSWER: Timurid Empire [or Imparātūrī Tēmūrī or Temürilär Imperiya; accept Timur the Lame or Tamerlane or Timur Lenk or Timur-i Lang or Temür Küregen or Tēmūr Gurkānī; accept Timurid Renaissance]
[10h] Timurid architecture reached its zenith in this city, which became the capital under Shāhrukh and Gawharshād (“go-har-SHAHD”). Alīshēr Nawā’ī is buried in the Musallā complex in this city, whose namesake school patronized miniature painting.
ANSWER: Herat [or Harāt; accept Herat School or Maktab-i Harāt]
[10m] This successor of Shāhrukh oversaw the peak of the Timurid Renaissance in Herāt. This ruler names a madrasa and an observatory that compiled the Zīj-i Sultānī astronomical tables in Samarkand.
ANSWER: Ulugh Bēg [or Mīrzā Muhammad Tāraghay bin Shāhrukh]
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