In addition to smashing the Golden Horde, this ruler won the Battle of Ankara and supposedly used the defeated Bayezid the Thunderbolt as a footstool.
This ruler sponsored Tokhtamysh's invasion of Moscow, but later destroyed Sarai and Astrakhan when he turned against this ruler. In addition to smashing the Golden Horde, this ruler won the Battle of Ankara and supposedly used the defeated Bayezid the Thunderbolt as a footstool. This ruler died en route to launching an invasion of Ming China, but not before creating a Tower of Heads in a square in Damascus and razing Delhi to the ground. A pyramid of skulls was built by, for 10 points, what Central Asian ruler who ruled from Samarkand in the fourteenth century?
This ruler sponsored Tokhtamysh's invasion of Moscow, but later destroyed Sarai and Astrakhan when he turned against this ruler.
{Timur} the Lame [or {Tamerlane}; or {Tamerlame}]