00:00Timur, better known as Tamerlane, was born in the 1320s, and died on April 8, 1336 in Kech.
00:07near Chakrisab, present-day Uzbekistan, died on February 18, 1405 in Autrar, present-day Kazakhstan, was a leader and conqueror
00:15Turco-Mongol, founder of the Timurid dynasty.
00:18Born into the Mongol-Turkic Barla dynasty, distantly related to Genghis Khan's Bordjigin, Tamerlane took control of the
00:26Jarathai cana around 1370.
00:29He led military campaigns across the Middle East and Central Asia, defeating the Golden Horde, the
00:34the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, the Ottoman Empire emerges, as well as the Delhi Sultanate in India, and even attempts to
00:40to restore the Yuan dynasty in China.
00:42Referring to himself as "the sword of Islam," he became the most powerful leader in the Muslim world.
00:48From his conquests, he founded the Timurid Empire, whose capital was Samarkand, and which fragmented little.
00:54after his death.
00:55An undefeated military commander, he is generally considered one of the greatest military leaders and tacticians in history.
01:01as well as one of the most brutal and deadly.
01:04Historians often refer to it as the "Timurid catastrophe" because of the scale of the destruction and massacres which
01:10his troops surrender themselves.
01:11Estimates of the number of victims of his military campaigns range from one million to seventeen million people.
01:17that was about 5% of the world's population at the time.
01:20During his conquests, he did not hesitate to massacre the entire population of the cities that resisted him.
01:26Some of his actions have been described as "genocidal" by modern authors.
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