Timur the Lame: History's Last Great Nomadic Conqueror

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A story of bloody rags to even bloodier riches.
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"Timur was a highly intelligent blood thirsty tyrant". I think this is a very concise summation of Timur's personality and frankly the reason for his success. He had a razor sharp mind and was more than prepared to couple it with systematic violence to acquire any agenda he sought.

zohebalikhan
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To subdue Georgians Timur ordered to destroy vines which is basically ripping Georgia’s heart out. That is one of the most traumatic experience for us in our long history of traumatic experiences

luciusdomitiusaurelianus
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Not the strangest warband speedrun I've ever witnessed

pukekoprobably
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You know youre brutal when your own horde is feeling sorry for the people they’re pillaging

jamesrella
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1:05 Timur is iron, Timuçin is the iron smith.

wg
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Tamerlane invading China is arguably one of the greatest “what ifs” in history

arthurmorgan
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Crazy to me that in a society that prized individual Marshal prowess, a crippled man from two arquebus shots could rise to control such a vast expanse of territory. Perhaps his ruthlessness was on account of his self realization that his individual abilities were extremely limited. Of course he must have been cunning and extremely intelligent, I think he could speak more than two languages which no doubt assisted in his coalescing of such a massive force.

pinchevulpes
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“I used to be an adventure till I took an arrow to the knee “

mig
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The georgians and their mountain fortresses did surprisingly well, I never knew they beat back timur's sons a couple of times with (presumably) next to no golden horde assistance kudos.
Battle of ankara: Least loyal serbian vs most loyal turkic mercenaries
A timurid invasion of ming china supported by the northern yuan, eastern mongols and the oirats would have been very interesting. He had the possible allies before yongle's northern campaigns against the mongols took place. However ming "instability" was clearly widely overstated, Yongle was already crowned emperor by that point (jingnan rebellion was over). I would wager Tamerlane would meet his match against the Yongle emperor.

lukasbaral
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There are few historical videos about Timur that are this detailed, accurate and unbiased.Good job, finally someone that can tell Timur treated Beyazid well according to accounts.

YY-ugmv
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Great video. You earned yourself a subscriber. Timur is so fascinating because of the fact he called himself the defender of Islam yet he went around mostly killing Muslims.

zafarahmed
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There is a great podcast called "Timur Podcast" The creator never completed it but it covers a large part of the early life and early rule of Timur. There is also the book by Justin Marozzi "Tamerlane" and the old novel "Tamerlane: The Earth Shaker" by Harold Lamb.

lastword
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26:15 I actually heard he didn't actually build a pyramid of skulls, instead he built a pyramid of heads and they just ended up rotting after a while.

sethleoric
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Seriously underrated channel keep it up!

SUDMONEYBAGS
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This deserves more views it was an amazing video!

Lukastar
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I’ve heard of Timur in passing whenever I skimmed through the medieval history of the Middle East, I knew about his reputation as a warlord and kill count. But hearing about it in detail in this video leaves me speechless at how much of a petty and bloodthirsty tyrant he was. It’s crazy how such men would get into power and abuse the hell out of it simply to feed their own egos. Condolences to all of his victims.

alanl.
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This was actually great to listen to, with good choice of paintings. Keep up the good work.

BallyBoy
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Timur vs China is one of the greatest what ifs in history, but I think it’s a great ending for the Emir to die at the peak of his power.
Absolute banger of video btw, fantastic narration and visuals. Keep it up

hoodclassicsofcalifornia
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Very well made of an era and subject that i knew very little of. Instant sub. Keep up the good work

Blacksage
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A lot of the YT documentaries availble on Timur are of fairly low quality or too short, but this was comprehensive and well written. Thanks.

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