So Timur is just a mount and blade protagonist in real life?

"I used to be a peasant like you, until I took an arrow to the knee."

Tamerlane's tomb markings were engraved with the phrase "“When I Rise From the Dead, The World Shall Tremble”. When the tomb was opened, another engraving was found on the inside that read “Whosoever Disturbs My Tomb Will Unleash an Invader More Terrible than I’. It was Soviet researchers that opened the tomb on June 19th, 1941 and exhumed Timur's remains. On June 22nd, 1941, the Nazis invaded the USSR beginning Operation Barbarossa. Late in 1942, Stalin ordered Timur's remains to be returned to the tomb.That winter the USSR would turn the tide of the war at Stalingrad.

How do you counter chain mail poison elephants? Flaming camels, of course! Because ridiculous can only be beaten by greater ridiculousness.

timur once got an arrow to the leg, but he kept beign a great adventurer, unlike some others

Camels carrying burning hay on their backs against elephants with poisoned tusks, the world was a lost episode of GOT back then

Just returned from a month in Uzbekistan and having visited Samarkand your video was very educational. Amazing place steeped in history and a mixture of many cultures! Great job.

Nice work man. Enjoyed this

I guess you can say that the Ilkhanate became an Ill-Khanate.

I love these mongol and turkic contents lately! Marvelous work!

Just a little clarification about Toktamish. That was arguably the most difficult and glorious win in Tamerland life. Both armies were almost identical , horse archers about 100 000 each , and they chase each other for about 1500 miles from the north shores of Black Sea to Central Asia. Crazy.

Timur wasnt a Mongol but he married with a mongol woman. He was Uzbek Turk.

Timur against Ming China would have been the bloodiest campaign of ancient world history, that I'm sure of. But still we can name Timur in one breath with the greatest like Alexander and Genghis Khan. His accomplishments are really extraordinary - defeating four empires, and never losing any single battle, while fighting wars at every front of your border. And he valued art, engineering and culture. The Turkic language flourished under his rule - it changed from the status of a simple army language to a language of science and poetry during his reign.

spoiling us with the central asian history bro, this is like crack.

Only found your channel not long ago. Been watching the older video you made while catching up with the new ones. Great to see these on Central Asia, a part of the world that is very often forgotten or ignored. So much history in the region to be explored.

Timur was from Turk-Mongol tribe which is Uzbekian tribe at the moment. He had book written. In that book, he said "I am kingdom of Turon and king of Turkistan, we are main generation of Turks" He was Turk in reality, but he was Mongol in miths and legend, because more writers wanted him to depend on Chingizxon.

You are spoiling us my dude.

Keep up the great work 👌👌

I love your maps. So easy to interpret yet detailed.

Well done on depicting the Aral Sea as it was back then. The detail in your maps are amazing.

Another great episode. love the colorful map details.

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Truly a great summary of the complicated history during the conquests of Tamerlane and his heirs.

How does one counter poisoned tusk armored elephants? WITH FLAMING CAMELS.

Great video! You're a great inspiration for my new channel. Great video once again! 😊

Ruy Gonzales De Clavijo, a Spanish nobleman who went to the palace of Timur to Samarkand as ambassador, stated in his book The Life of Timur & Travels from Kadiz to Samarkand, that Timur was descended from a noble generation of Turk immigrants who boasted of their lineage. [14] While Richard Bulliet says that Barlas has nothing to do with Mongols,[15] Rene Grousset [16] states that Timur's ancestry is based on Genghis in the books written in his time, whereas Timur is not related to Mongols and says that Timur is Turk.. Timur:We are Melik of Turan, Amir of Turkestan. We are sons of Turk. I am the Chieftain of the oldest and greatest nation! Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi/Zafarnama ...emirs. Sensing an opportu- nity, Timur (also known in English as Tamerlane), the leader of the Chagatai Turks, moved against Syria. In the closing decades of the fourteenth century Timur had created an empire that included much of Central Asia, Iran, and Iraq. Though Timur was not him- self a Mongol,... (pp. 84-107) Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography Princeton University Press (2018) It is true that Barlas is identical with Barulas in the list of the Turkish nirqbn tribes, see Rashld al-dln, ed. Berezin, vii, 265* Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1954), pp. 600-602 ...Barlas tribe of Central Asia was largely of Turkic origin with mixed Mongolian ancestry. From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia Adil Hussain Khan Indiana University Press (2015) TAMERLANE (1336-1405). Turkic chieftain and conqueror. He was not Mongol, but sought to trace Mongol connections through his wife's ancestors. The A to Z of the Mongol World Empire Amir Tîmûr-i-lang, also known as Tamerlane, was a Barlâs Turk of a noble family. By the time he was born, however, his family had fallen on hard times and lived by banditry. indicmandala.com/zafar-nama/ Who were the Timurids? Ulugh Beg was the grandson of Timur, known in the west as Tamerlane, or 'Timur the Lame', due to a leg injury sustained in battle. Originally the ruler of a small Turkish tribe, Timur conquered the whole of Iran and Central Asia to create the Timurid Empire. www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/MeHtWABVSaaHNHl4ndc4rQ A comprehensive history of Iran in the early fifteenth century, under the Timurids, a Turkic dynasty of nomadic origin. www.amazon.com/Politics-Religion-Timurid-Cambridge-Civilization/dp/0521865476 His father was from the Turkish stock, probably also descended from the same Turkish tribes who accompanied the Mongol warriors in their conquest of Transoxiana and then settled in the new territory. iranologie.com/the-history-page/timurids/ Timur founded Timurids dynasty during the late 14th century. He was a Turk from Transoxiana nomads and son of a warrior. www.destinationiran.com/history-timurids-invaders-iran.htm Temür and his followers were Turks loyal to the Mongol tradition, but they were also Muslim and well acquainted with Perso-Islamic culture. oxfordre.com/asianhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277727-e-10 One of the Turkish tribes was the Barlas, a member of which, Timur the son of Taraghay, was to prove himself an extremely adept politician and warrior, rising to power in the third quarter of the 14th century as Mongol authority waned ( see Timurid , §II, A). www.oxfordreference.com/search?q=Barlas+clan&searchBtn=Search&isQuickSearch=true Timur or Tamurlane, the fourteenthcentury Turkic ( see Turko-Mongol Mythology ) warrior-king and founder of the Timurid... www.oxfordreference.com/search?q=Turko-Mongol&searchBtn=Search&isQuickSearch=true Timur Lenk, the Turcic conqueror invaded India in 1398. oxfordislamicstudies.com/print/opr/t236/e0931 Asian regions and cities during the Mughal Empire. The Mughal Empire dates from 1526 when Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur ( 1483-1530 ), the Turco-Mongol ruler of Kabul, invaded northern India and declared himself its emperor. He based his imperious claim on the brief conquest of Delhi in 1398 by his distant Turkish ancestor Timur ( aka Tamerlane , 1336-1405 ), conqueror of Central Asia. oxfordre.com/search?q=Turco-Mongol&searchBtn=Search&isQuickSearch=true The Timurid dynasty was founded in 1370 by the Turkic warlord Temür, usually known in the west as Tamerlane (Temür the lame). oxfordre.com/asianhistory/oso/viewentry/10.1093$002facrefore$002f9780190277727.001.0001$002facrefore-9780190277727-e-10 A Central Asian (see Central Asian Mythology) epic cycle about the conquests of Timur or Tamurlane, the fourteenthcentury Turkic) warrior-king and founder of the Timurid dynasty. www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803104707159 Tamerlane (Timur-i Lang, Timur the Lame) (1336-1405) Outstanding political and military tactician; rallied tribal support in the region east of the Ferghana Valley, and established a Turkic dynasty based on Samarkand and ... www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198662624.001.0001/acref-9780198662624-e-5583?rskey=X4sFeH&result=15 Timur was not a Mongol himself, but from the Turkic Barlas tribe in Transoxania, now Uzbekistan. www.oxfordreference.com/search?q=Timur+was+not&searchBtn=Search&isQuickSearch=true A Timurid is one of his descendants; a member of the Turkic dynasty founded by him, which ruled in central Asia until the 16th century. www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803104707142 The founder, Timur Leng, was a Chagatai Turk of the Barlas tribe in the region of Kish, Western Turkestan. www.iis.ac.uk/encyclopaedia-articles/timurids The Timurid Empire was a powerful, conquest-driven empire that devolved into disunited dynasties more noted for artistic than political endeavors. Tamerlane (Timur Lang) (1336-1405) was not a Mongol but emerged out of the chaos of post-Mongol Turkistan. www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/empires-timurid Although his people (Turks), the various lineages of the Barlas, lived a pastoral life and became nomads, they existed in close proximity to sedentary people and sedentary culture, even while antagonistic to it. www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/empires-timurid Descended from Turkish (not Mongol) stock no longer migratory, Timur began his career with an attempt to free his native Transoxania. www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/timur-tamerlane In 1398 Timur, the Turkic warrior from Central Asia(known in the West as Tamerlane) www.encyclopedia.com/international/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/sultanate-painting Tamerlane is Marozzi's biography of the great fourteenth-century Turkic conqueror Timur www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/marozzi-justin-1970 Timur (Tamerlane), a Muslim Turkic leader www.encyclopedia.com/history/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/world-events-selected-occurrences-outside-west-africa After the Mongol Dynasty of the Il-Khans, Persia was ruled for a short period (c.1380-1469) by timur (Tamerlane) and his successors. These Central-Asian Turkish rulers, with their capitals of Samarqand or Herat, were great patrons of the arts and literature. www.encyclopedia.com/history/asia-and-africa/ancient-history-middle-east/persia Timur was born around 1336 in Transoxania near Kesh - later known as Shahrisabz - in the Kashka Darya region of what is today the Republic of Uzbekistan. He was a Turk of the Barlas tribe; this tribe, like many others, boasted a Mongol name and ancestry, but for all practical purposes it was Turkic. www.cambridge.org/core/books/history-of-inner-asia/timur-and-the-timurids/EDCB0CBC613DC35ED74785C0DD97EB62 Timur was born in Kesh, near Samarkand, Transoxania (now in Uzbekistan), in 1336. He was a member of the Turkic Barlas clan of Mongols. kids.britannica.com/students/article/Timur/277364 Actual power lay in the hands of the amir Timur (Tamerlane, 1336-1405) who continued the Chagatai rule although he was not a Mongol himself. www.britannica.com/place/Mongol-empire/Mongol-empires-in-central-Asia Timur (Tamerlane) was a Turk, not a Mongol, but he aimed to restore Mongol power. www.britannica.com/topic/Islamic-world/Conversion-of-Mongols-to-Islam The dynasty was founded by a Chagatai Turkic prince named Bābur (reigned 1526-30), who was descended from the Turkic conqueror Timur (Tamerlane) on his father’s side and from Chagatai, second son of the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan, on his mother’s side. www.britannica.com/topic/Mughal-dynasty Timurid dynasty, (fl. 15th-16th century CE), dynasty of Turkic-Mongol origin descended from the conqueror Timur(Tamerlane). www.britannica.com/topic/Timurid-dynasty Although claiming to descend distantly, and by his mother, from Chingiz khān (Genghis khān), Bāber, the founder in India of the Mughal dynasty, was a Chaghātai Turk, who, through his father, was descended from Timūr-Lang (Tamerlan), Turkish Barlās reigning in Samarkand at the end of the 14th century and who invaded India in 1398. www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/moghols/ www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/57819?position=0

I'd been waiting for coverage of Tamerlane!

Great video. Thank you Sir.

The history of this part of the globe is often unknown (at least by me!) ... A new very interesting video , map and animations are beautiful!👌

Good video. I love your animation style man!

Fun fact about Tokhtamysh; he was supported in his last stand against Tamerlane by the Grand Duke of Lithuania - Vytautas the Great. Despite that Vytautas did it completely independently from his cousin, king of Poland and officially the "Supreme Grand Duke of Lithuania" Jogaila (Władysław Jagiełło), many Polish knights volunteered to fight in his army. He even got the support of the bitter enemy of Lithuania - the Teutonic Order. Although this campaign ended in a defeat in the battle of Vorskla in 1399, Vytautas offered the former supporters of Tokhtamysh refuge in his realm, which was the main origin of the Tatar community in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Great work Epimetheus!

The Mongolian invasions of Central Asian and the Middle East, then the black plague, followed by Timur. How could anyone expect civilization to come back after that? That part of the world wasn't quite the same after 1200 - 1530 ...

Very well researched and presented.. thanks for sharing...!!!

This guy deserves his own netflix miniseries.

The usual storyline of Iranian history after Islam: 1. Invasion by brutal people, 2. Early destruction of monuments and mass killing and bloodshed of the civilians, 3. The conquerer tribe starts to respect the Iranian/Persian culture, philosophies, language, and political system, 4. Then they become a well-known scientist/poet/artist and a great preacher of Persian/Iranian culture to other nations. It is magic, that this culture still exits on the face of the earth, its language is still spoken, and its philosophies remained so much influential. Isn't it?

Awesome video Epimetheus, I love your art style and your maps are beautiful. Keep up the fantastic history content.

One of your best vids so far! Keep it up.

Thank you for this amazing video! I've always had a hard time keeping Tamerlane's story straight in my head--but you really did a good job centering the map, showing his conquests, and getting down to the nitty gritty of what he did and how he did it, as well as his descendants. You've made me a huge fan of one of history's greatest butchers and genociders! Thank you!

Nicely done, thanks.

He got that Arrow on his knee much later. During the war, close to Tashkent city. The name of the war is Loy Jangi . His mongol brother in law run away. But Temur won it anyway. And only Temur's enemies called him Temur lang. But we call Him Amir Temur.

First! This Video will be also great, thanks for the effort:)

Excellent work, thank you. May you find much wealth and happiness

I love your usage of graphics

Thank you for a beautiful video! Very console but informative

Those Khanates were Turko-Mongolic, but more Turkish than Mongolian. Timur referred to himself in many letters as a Turk.

Thanks for the great vid

Im glad to leave a comment , I follow ypur channel a while now , and I really like your contend , very cool drawings combined with history that is not so much known in europe and western states :)

Imagine if he had faced Hongwu and Yongle like he was supposed to do, it would have been one of the greatest confrontation and probably the biggest of the period

My turkic uzbek ancestor👍

Nice video!

Great video!

Ottoman Enpire in Bayezid's rule: why do i hear boss music

Truly fine and knowledgable video,, wonderful narration with historical facts,,, first time I am watching such a knowledgable video as I personally loved TAMERLANE since my childhood I have reading every book written on him,, I love notorious American Historian HEROLD LAMB whose books on history are world best so far,,, i.have a collection of his all books especially about Tamerlane being my most favourite character in history. I have had read first book at age of 10 written by Herold Lamb in 1968 , since then I am reading every book about Tamerlane,,,now into 50s living in USA still loves this great Conqueror of the world,,the last one who tried to conquer the world through SWORD. great uploading

Wonderful overview! Thanks.

I love all of the videos he made!🤗

Now do the Goguryeo kingdom. Its capital is my capital, best capital of them all Pyongyang

6:10 Bayezid spent years exchanging letters with Timur, typically arguing whose manhood is bigger ... Timur launching a full-scale invasion to Anatolia

My favourite footnote in the total war games was way more influential than I had ever imagined, thank you for this.

I became fascinated by this historical figure ever since I studied the play "Tamburlaine" by Christopher Marlowe(Shakespeare's contemporary) and a little later I discovered the stunning opera "Tamerlano" by George Frederick Handel the eighteenth century Anglo-German composer who wrote operas in Italian.There are also many operas about Timur's great adversary the Ottoman sultan Bajazet -notably by Vivaldi and Gasparini..The story that Timur carried Bajazet around in a cage is however fictional.

Great video! This is best brief summary of Tamerlane’s life and legacy that I’ve seen! Tamerlane indirectly contributed to the rise of Muscovy by ravaging the lands of the Golden Horde to the north of his empire in the 1390s. He completely ravaged northern India. He also delayed the conquest of Constantinople by 50 years by defeating the Ottomans at the Battle of Ankara. Overall, Tamerlane had an enormous impact on history.

Awesome another history channel oh yeaaaaa subscribed

Thanks so much for this history!

I read an ancient book in spanish called ¨Embasy to Timerland¨ that describes the travel from Castilla to Shamarkanda of 3 Castilla King to Timur and its written in old spanish but its a beautiful tale

Assalomalekim l am from uzbekistan 🇺🇿👋👋👋👋

Man I love your videos ❤

Great video. Gap yoq yashang

Timur was from Barlas tribe, the ex-Mongol tribe, who adopted Turkic language in 14 century. Those Mongols, who went to the West (Golden Horde, Chagatay, Ilkhanate), changed their language to Turkic and Iranic (Hazara) languages of conquered peoples. Mongols were a small minority among Turkic-Iranic masses of Central Asia. Only those Mongols, who stayed in East Asia (modern day China, Mongolia, Russia), saved their Mongol language and pagan religion. Btw later most of Barlas tribe was assimilated by Uzbeks, but in Tajikistan there are still about 5 000 people, who identify themselves as ethnic Barlas. In Tajikistan they are officialy recognized as separate Turkic ethnic group.

Are we really going to gloss over the fact that he set camels on fire to combat armored elephants with poisoned tusks? And people say history is boring... Seriously, that's fucking metal as fuck!

Great video

Great vid

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1:27 Frickin chaos worshippers ruined the chagatai khanate. Don't do heresy, kids.

Love it. Not enough content on Timur

One striking aspect of him was when I read the tuzuk I timuri was whenever the situation was dire and hopeless, a good news arrived . And he went on his knees “ to thank god immediately” . Time and again he mentions it . Remember people “ whatever you are thankful for , multiples “

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Can you do a video about Yemen's ancient kingdoms?

Remember studying him during Kazakh history lessons. Temir means iron in Kazakh. Currently, Temirlan and Tamerlan are two incredibly widespread names among all Kazakhs

Subcribed, cool video

Timur is an UZBEK TURK WHO MARRIED IN THE FAMILY OF CENGIZ KHAN !

Timur's soldiers got no regular salary--they earned what they could loot! (Great motivation...)

Well made video

good work sir

I love the 40k reference with the transoxania anarchy and chaos part lol

I swear these guys became the Total War equivalent of the Tyrannids in my game of Medieval 2, didn't help that i was also playing HRE lol.

Outstanding!!!

great video

Thank you. The history of Steppe lands is the most fascinating to me. I never realized that nomadic peoples have so much in common across the world. Can't wait to listen.

Perfect like always 👌👌👌👌 Love and peace from persia 💜

I sure wish I could get my hands on his drawn maps. They're gorgeous.

timur : enslaving and killing thousand of fellow muslim neighbours timur : *"I AM THE SWORD OF ISLAM"*

He said with his own words: “I am the great leader of Turan and the greatest nation on world, Turks! I am Turk like my father.”

„Typically insulting eachothers manliness“ hahaha, classic

Amazing video! I dont know that the empire last 1 century more!

Nice job.

TAMERLANE UZBEK UZBEKISTAN🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿

“Timur “ meanning ( Turkic: Demir) (English : İron ) Our ancestor , He not lose any war , Won 80 Battle. He Speaking Caghatai Turkic And he Said “ We are Melik-i ( Ruler) of Turan , Emir-i(Leader) of Turkestan “ 🐺🐺🐺🐺

Although I appreciated the efforts of the creator, I just want to say that most of the pieces of information are from Soviet sources which were altered versions of the original ones. The reason for changing them was to spread lies about him in Uzbekistan (which was a Soviet colony at that time), to make people believe that their ancestors were horrible people. No hate🙏

This guy knows the symbol of Chaos. Better call the Inquisition

You should do a video on Nader Shah