This man fell ill and died while wintering at Otrar, where his body was put in an ebony coffin.
This man fell ill and died while wintering at Otrar, where his body was put in an ebony coffin. This man cemented his rule by turning against his brother-in-law at Balkh. This grandfather of Ulug Beg captured Smyrna from the Knights Hospitallers and defeated his rival Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde. He allegedly built a pyramid of skulls outside Isfahan, and was shot early in life by two arrows while stealing a sheep, causing disability on his right side. This man's short-lived empire, based in Samarkand, caused a twelve-year Ottoman interregnum after his victory at Ankara. For 10 points, name this descendant of Genghis Khan, a Turko-Mongol conqueror of the late 1300s.
This man fell ill and died while wintering at Otrar, where his body was put in an ebony coffin.
Tamerlane [or Timur-i Leng; or Timur Lenk; or Timur the Lame; or Timurlank; or TemÃ¼r; or Tamburlaine; or Tamerlame] 