Career and achievement of Ghazan Khan

Career and achievement of Ghazan Khan

    Ghazan Khan the eldest son of Argun Khan ascended the throne in 1295 his accession mark the opinion of a period of progress and prosperity. Immediately after his accession Ghazan in breast Islam and took the name Mahmud and from this time on world till the fall of the dynasty Islam was the religion of the state.
    The earliest part of his short reign nine years was field with rebellion and disturbance many chief and official were put to death during his reign Ghazan took advent age from the weakness of Mamluk empire which was suffering from internal trouble and invaded series and crossed the Euphrates with 19th thousand strong army.
    The deceive battle was fought at Hims Ghazan defeated the Mamluks and captured Damascus. Islam had brought a great change in the behavior of Mongol which is evidence in Ghazan treatment of Damascus.
    He received the submission of the city and issued a proclamation that no harm would be done to anyone. In 1301 Ghazan made second incursion into serial but was failed with heavy loss due to bad weather two years later he against crossed the Euphrates but in this occasion got minor success. He had friendly relation with Byzantium.
    In spite of all these Ghazan is more famous for his reform he introduced a great financial reform before this condition of revenue was much bad he introduced a new system of taxation, each village paid taxes in two statements. Another major was that all government official and others not only use the government transport but also everything without payment he removed the title of Khakan from the coin age. He improved the administration of justice and setup a standard of way and majors. Thousands of guards were postage on roads for the safety of travelers.
    Ghazan decorated his capital Tabrez with buildings, such as Sultan Sanjars tone at Marv. He made many mosque, colleges, hospitals, library and observatory and acquainted learned men with liberal salaries to teach and work in these foundation.
    Thus in short Ghazan achieve great fame in administration Ghazan than ugly and short structure but he was noted as official administration in brave warrior and fought numbers of word with Mamluk of Egypt due to his influence Mongols were began to embrace Islam. It is to be regarded that a man of such administrative gibbous was shortly after words successed by Pupet Khan. Under whom Persia relaxed into anarchy.