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Hotaki-Safavid War

Years: 1709 - 1722

Mir Wais Khan Hotak (1673-1715), a Pashtun tribal chief of the Ghilzai clan from Kandahar, founds the Hotaki dynasty that ruled Persia from 1722 to 1729.

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress."

― H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, Vol 2 (1920)