Now over the next few decades, he tries to consolidate control. He tries to take control of Samarkand, loses control, and then of Fergana, and keeps repeatedly losing control. Early in the 16th century, he is able to take Kabul, but then decides to focus on India instead of Central Asia. In 1526, famously with the use of cannons, which had not been used in a significant way in the Indian subcontinent until that time, Babur was able to defeat Ibrahim Lodi of the Delhi Sultanate and come to power in northern India. And you can see in this blue-gray color, this is the territory that Babur was able to rule over until his death in 1530. Mogul is just the Persian word for Mongol. Remember, Babur is a descendant of Timur, who is a Turco-Mongolian conqueror.