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 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…
The Legend of the Gargareans, the Anti-Amazons The Amazons are a well-known component of Greek mythology and there are many similar stories of all-women societies…
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…
The knights were the equestrian warrior class of medieval Europe, a land-holding noble defined by his ability to effectively ride a heavy horse into battle.…
Like most cultural touchstones of antiquity, Gladiatorial Games do not have a single clear point of origin. The most probable explanation for the phenomenon (in…
The more I research Roman Gladiators, the more certain I become that the film “Gladiator” might defeat Braveheart as the most historically inaccurate movie of…
The “Sword and Dagger” style of fencing was popular during the Rennaissance, (1350ish-1600ish), and was most commonly used as a method of dueling. It is…
I’ve been fascinated with Medieval European history for as long as I can remember. I have no idea where it started, and it doesn’t look…