Was Timur The Greatest Conqueror Ever?

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0:00 Intro
0:25 Early Life & Rise to Power
4:57 Persian & Golden Horde Campaigns
6:25 India Campaign
8:26 Middle East Campaign
10:31 Timurid Empire in 1405

[HikmaHistory]

Who was greater, Timur or Ghengis Khan?

[backpressure]

In my opinion, Timur's greatest military accomplishments are beating the Mamluks and Indians. Like you said neither Genghis Khan nor Alexander managed to capture Deli. And remember Mongols lost repeatedly to Mamluks and Indians before Timur, but Mongols did beat Anatolian Turks in the battle of Kose Dag before Timur.

[yourztruly]

I always felt timur was very underrated amongst the great conquerors in history even though he was just as competent or arguably better

[tyisen]

In Turkic countries overall, he was well liked as he generally treated Turkic nomads well. That, and the fact that Bayezid slowly started removing the beyliks of Anatolia, gave reason to why Turks changed side.

[abdever]

The closest ancestor of the Mughals, the founder of the Timurid Renaissance

[ahsanfareed]

He was cruel but he was the greatest commander of his time he defeated all the super powers including ottomans and Delhi's sultanate

[timurpodcast]

One of the most forgotten conquerors/rulers of all time. Thank you for making such great content about him!

[freslieslieson]

The 8 dislike is from Ottoman, Mamluk, Delhi, Golden horde, two each.

[aaronTGP_]

Other candidates:
-Genghis Khan/Subutai
-Nader Shah
-Alexander the Great
-Cyrus the Great
-Chandragupta Maurya

[biscolataman]

Though not Mongol himself, Timur himself had sought to enhance the legitimacy of his rule by assuming the mantle of the line of Chaghatai Khan, with whom he claimed kinship. He had adopted the title of Gurkan (son-in-law) in reference to his marriage to Tukul Khanum, whose father was directly related to Chaghatai Khan and additionally installed a puppet king from the Chaghatid clan on the throne. Quite appropriately therefore Babur, Humayun and Akbar saw themselves first and foremost as princes of the great house of Timur (1336 - 1405), who had conquered vast tracts of territory in Central Asia and even sacked Delhi in 1398. Additionally they traced their ancestry even further back to the Mongol warrior Chenggiz Khan (1167 - 1227), who had upon his death, divided his vast Mongol empire among his four sons, a crucial event later illustrated by Akbar's artists. Mughalistan (including the western Tarim Basin and Kashgar) and Transoxania were bestowed upon his second son Chaghatai Khan (d. 1242). When these two wings of dominion were split up late in the thirteenth century, Transoxania in the west became the scene of mass conversion to Islam and a great deal of intermarriage with Turkic tribes people before it eventually fell to Timur, a Barlas Turk. Timur's descendants had ruled Transoxania until they succumbed to the forces of the Shaibanid Turks in 1508- 9.

The remaining descendants of the surviving Timurids - the Chaghataid Turks, still survived in certain parts of Central Asia ( especially Ferghana), nurturing a festering ego ever since their dynasty had fallen into near oblivion.


Agra’s Mughal riverfront gardens date from the conquest in 1526 of the Chagatai Turkic prince Babur, descendant of Emperor Timur on his father’s side and the Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan on his mother’s.

[khomol]

I always disliked timur for all the pain and hurt he had caused. And I never understood why some people regarded him so highly. Thank you for this research, which at the end shows why the West likes him, somewhat tongue in cheek as well as further references.

[TSA]

Temur was the greatest warrior🙌!! I wish more movie were made in Hollywood about him

[thevietnamesetree]

What happen if Timur didn't die on his way to invade the Ming?

[timothywise]

Reading Harold Lamb’s Tamerlane, so watching your video is serving a great synopsis but also a perspective to compare Lamb’s story/history with!

[xenabidin]

Poor Dehlites, the time for bravery to fight against Timur was when their army had not perished, once the city gates were open and they had officially surrendered, they should have tolerated Timur's mens' heavy handedness, just my opinion.

[antowalk]

Your information is well in researched

[JAVLONBEK_x]

Amir Temur was a great general, his fighting skills and military strategies were very strong, but his successors could not be like their ancestors, if it was not for his illness, he would have conquered China. Genghis Khan was also able to gather a large army, but it could be finished during the Khorezmshah period, but the country fell into disarray due to the wife of Alauddin Muhammad, the stepmother of Jalaluddin Manguberdi, Jalaluddin Manguberdi was the only ruler who could fight Genghis Khan, he was only a state administrator it was a disadvantage that he was not in his hands, he did not speak to his father, but because his father gave control much later, the defeat was obvious, but when the army of Khorezmshahs united and entered the battle at the beginning of the Mongol invasion, the situation would have changed dramatically in the other direction . In historical facts, it is written that the Khorezm army was more than the Mongol army. If Central Asia had not been conquered, maybe Amir Temur would not have come out, there is a reason for this. But Amir Temur is much bigger than Genghis Khan.

[googane]

15:54 All his looting and massacres may have hurt him in the long term but he didn't have the patience to wait decades before these settlements can turn any profit for him plus this severely weakens the strength of any future rebellion and thus are less likely to rebel. A lot of the cities he did loot and destroy were outside his domain like anatolia, india and georgia so he certainly wasn't losing anything by pillaging them. He constantly needed loot to maintain his large army and had constant need of bribes and favors like with the battle of ankara where he likely bribed the tartars betray Bayezid which became the turning point in the battle. This reminds of Germany on the build up to ww2, the german war economy became so bloated that they constantly needed to plunder the treasuries of the nations they conquered to keep up with payments.

[hugodesrosiers-plaisance]

4:45
"much more than EMIR PRINCE."
That was beyond slick.

[masidd]

Mashallah!!!
Loved the sound effects, the editing, and the way of
Keep up the good work habibi!!