Timur
Biography
Tamerlane built a late Mongol empire from Samarkand, Delhi sacked 1398, Ottoman Bayezid captured at Ankara 1402, the cage legend. A patron of architecture, Samarkand registan, the observatory of Ulugh Beg his grandson. India dynasty, the Mughals, descended through Babur. Died marching on Ming China. Ibn Khaldun met him outside Damascus, the scholar and the conqueror conversing.
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