Which Central Asian ruler, a descendant of both Tamerlane and Genghis Khan, founded the Mughal Empire in 1526 after winning the Battle of Panipat?
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Babur
Babur used gunpowder and field artillery to defeat the much larger army of the Lodi dynasty. His memoirs, the Baburnama, provide a detailed account of his life and the geography of his new empire.