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…
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…
A common piece of advice given to aspiring authors is “write what you know.” Essentially, this proverb is meant to guide new writers to draw…
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.…
In the first century CE, there were two social classes in which a gladiator might fall; the auctorati were free people who voluntarily became gladiators and…
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…