TAMERLANE: How one LAME nomad killed MORE people than ALL the wars of Europe combined!
This biography of Tamerlane (Timur) is a chilling tale of how a lame nomad became the "Lord of the World" and killed more people than all the wars fought in Europe at the time. His name meant "Iron Lame," but his cruelty knew no bounds. He built towers of 90,000 living people encased in clay and pyramids of severed heads.
He defeated the Golden Horde, the Ottoman Empire, and the Delhi Sultanate. He was a brilliant military leader and patron of the arts who transformed Samarkand into the pearl of the world, but he built it on the bones of millions. This is the story of a man who considered himself the "sword of Islam," but was more like its plague.
00:00:00 — Introduction
00:01:52 — Timur's Personality
00:02:46 — Timur's Early Years
00:04:41 — Cultural Heritage
00:07:33 — Striving for Greatness
00:10:25 — Injuries and Their Consequences
00:11:24 — Adapting to the Conditions
00:11:57 — Timur's Wounds and Nickname
00:14:19 — Early Career
00:16:13 — Legitimation and Power
00:18:04 — Conquests and Terror
00:21:34 — Towers of Skulls
00:24:19 — Destruction of Urgench
00:26:15 — Iz Fizar and Isfahan
00:26:53 — Isfahan: The Pearl of Persia
00:27:49 — Uprising in Isfahan
00:28:49 — The Scale of the Massacre in Isfahan
00:29:45 — Timur's Invasion of India
00:31:34 — Massacre of Captives in Front of Delhi
00:33:34 — The Sack of Delhi
00:34:33 — Damascus and Its Aftermath
00:37:38 — Timur's Meeting with Ibn Khaldun
00:38:36 — The Storming of Baghdad
00:39:44 — Timur's Cruelty
00:40:59 — The Battle of Ankara
00:41:54 — The Capture of Bayezid
00:44:37 — Timur's Paradox
00:45:35 — Timur's Cultural Legacy
00:47:32 — Timur's Intellectual Interests
00:49:21 — Strategy Timur
00:51:09 — The Death of Timur
00:54:06 — Timur's Tomb and Its Legend
00:55:05 — Soviet Scientists' Expedition
00:55:57 — Reconstruction of Timur's Face
00:56:55 — The Myth of the Curse
00:57:48 — Reburial of the Remains
00:58:48 — Timur as a National Hero of Uzbekistan
01:01:25 — The Cultural Heritage of the Timurids
01:04:05 — Babur and the Mughal Empire
01:06:00 — History Lesson
01:06:56 — The Beauty of Samarkand