How The Thriving, Prosperous Timurid Empire of Central Asia Declined and Dissolved While Timur’s personal brand of ruthless politics and battlefield competence kept his realm…
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The Greatest Poet You’ve Never Heard Of At a certain point while researching Califia’s Crusade, I wanted to bring more real-life historical figures into the…
The Timurid Renaissance When Timur the Great passed away in early 1405, a succession dispute quickly arose among potential claimants. Timur had kept control over…
Who Could Claim Constantinople After the Ottoman Conquest? As I’ve previously noted, the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 was not the first time that…
Timur the Great and the Central Asian Empire You’ve Probably Never Heard Of West of China and India, south of Russia, and east of Turkey…
Late Medieval Politics and the Quest for Constantinople The Crusades occupy a strange place in the American imagination. Popular impressions of what they were, why…