When determining the greatness of an empire, which factor do you hold in higher esteem - longevity or legacy? Full Documentary Playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLiPhmAD3I2Jz-1xQ0POURRX_Q-6Jxo17A.html&si=0B9sbSJNLU4f1b9x
All empires left legacies regardless of how long they lasted! The foremost question here should be how do we justify whether an empire's legacy is great or inglorious.
Timur is criminally underrated as one of history’s great (and brutal) conquerors. Fashioned himself the second coming of Genghis Khan, and lived up to the hype. Liking this video!
Couldn’t agree more. My favourite thing about him is that most of his conquests came in the last decade of his life. The 2/3 decades before he spent consolidating his realm and rule. It’s a shame he didn’t have the foresight to know the succession crisis that was to come!
"A man does evil deeds, and all his days Are filled with luck and universal praise; Another's good in all he does - he dies A wretched, broken man whom all despise" - Abulqasem Ferdowsi (Persian Poet)
This is the truth of this life, reminds me of the Bible in job. When Job states that he who blinds the eyes of the judges is God, from whose hand do we receive evil and Good.
Tomyris fills a wineskin with blood, and when she comes across Cyrus' body on the field, she stuffs his head into the wineskin, saying σὲ δ'ἐγὼ, κατά περ ἠπείλησα, αἵματος κορέσω -- "Just as I threatened, I will give you your fill of blood." (1.214.5) Herodotus
@@JosephArimathea29To be clear that's not meant to be a strictly true statement from Job, I don't think any Abrahamic religion truly believes God created evil
Timur/Tammerlane is notable for his destruction of the Nestorian Christian societies in the areas he conquered. He typically built mosques over the Nestorian churches and monasteries he leveled. Christianity became a European phenomenon after 1400 because it was persecuted out of existence in Asia (and most of Africa outside Ethiopia). (This is the assertion of the book The lost history of Christianity by a Cambridge scholar)
@@muhammaduzbek3658You’d think after a thousand years of slaughtering each other into a stalemate, you religious zealots would learn to get along. Oh well, I guess it makes the history books more interesting.
Great documentary on one of the greatest emperors and empires in history. Like you said, the Timurid Empire is highly underrated and needs to be brought onto the spotlight more often. Keep up the good efforts my friend!
Hi Hikma, Thank you for making a video about our ancestors. Timur reestablished Central Asian Turkic power, culture, and ancient cities, which had been totally destroyed by Genghis Khan 150 years earlier. Timur's grandson Ulugh Beg became a great astronomer, and his student Ali Qushji continued his work in Istanbul. Babur, a direct descendant of Timur, founded the Mughal Empire in India, which lasted for 300 years.
@@Eastern_Egale open Google, search for Temurid rennessans, read the whole articles on wiki or other sites. You will see it's also called Turkic rennessans and beginning of gunpowder empires.
It because he was muslim. And he did not destroyed Ottoman empire. If he destroyed Ottoman empire and the brutally murder 25% human. Then the hole today told him the greatest conqueror not genghis khan
Reasons he's less famous: 1. Genghis Khan and his successors had a bigger Empire and revolutionized the world stage. 2. Very little in the form of legacy - Alexander spread Hellenic culture for instance and founded many cities. His successor states lasted for centuries before being conquered by the Romans/Parthians. 3. In relation to the 2 above, Timur didnt seem very interested in building empire and/or spreading "timurid" culture. Btw the timurids figure heavily in gaming, for instance medieval 2 TW and AOE2.
@@daarom3472 No. That's not. Genghis lhan one of the successor the golden hord was defeated by timur.In case he made a successful invasion in indian were Mongol were defeated every time. And he conquered the persian land like the Mongol did. So he wanted to made a new mongol empire.
Poe's Tamerlane poem is actually pretty interesting. It portrays Timur as a man who gives up the people and home he loves to go off and fulfill his ambitions of conquest and rulership. He achieves that dream but comes to regret his decision after it's too late to go back. Poe wrote the poem in his later teens after the loss of several beloved family members as well as other struggles in his life and he was using the (very loose) story of Timur as an outlet for his own heartache and sense of loss rather than attempting to portray the man's life with any accuracy. (Funnily enough, Timur might have appreciated Poe's work had he been around to read it. The man was quite enamored of poetry and scholarship, hence why he forcibly imported so many intellectuals and skilled artisans from the populations he conquered/slaughtered. Like you say in the video, he was a complex person.)
it really interesting to see the timeline of Timurid Empire how it shaped and changed the world Everyone Trying to become their Ancestor Chinggis Khan Started from the step of Mongolia Ended in the Yangon, Myanmar
10:00 Imagine if you've never seen an elephant before in your life, the biggest animal you've seen is maybe a bear or a moose, and then you see hundreds of war elephants decked out in armor. No wonder they were afraid. 😮
That's exactly what happened when Rome conquered Britain in 43AD. Emperor Claudius entered London on top of an African Elephant. The Brits were shocked, they thought he was a god. 😂😂😂😂. They had never seen an elephant ever in their lives.
1) “If you want to see our power, look at the buildings we have built” written on the facade of Aksaray (translated like "White palace", most propably American White House was inspired from) 2) Today only foundation of the gate of Aksaray survived. Attention! Only foundation of the gate! 3) The height of this gate foundation today is almost equal to the height of Hagia Sophia! 4) The real size of his building should be really intimidating for his age, even today.
@@williamruth7586 So what? This is not a news and it does not invalidate my point. Timur was the first monarch to make the supreme residence of nation white. US nation was just inspired by this Timurid statehood tradition. They just changed the "palace" to "house" for obvious political- ideological reasons
@@TerrorbelliDecuspacis-w5f actually it's called the White House because Teddy Roosevelt officially named it in 1902 the White House after its popular nickname. Prior to that it was originally called President's Palace and the Executive Mansion throughout the years
your research and presentation are always fantastic but I wish you'd put a running timeline so we can always see the approximate year, that would make things easier to follow
Thank you for this excellent video! I knew only a little bit about Timur's conquests (and his famous brutality, like so many conquerors before him) in central and southern Asia before watching this. I knew virtually nothing about his legacy or the fate of his empire before watching this. Thank you for teaching me a lot with this one! God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
Ever heard about Umer ibn Khattab? Conquered 2.2 million square miles in 10 years and maintained Government to the level than nobody ever dared to revolt or disobey him.
The Golden Age of Herat ( the pearl of Khorasan ) was during the descendants of Timur and there were thousand of scholars in Herat, and even his period is called the Renaissance of east. and probably one of the best years of Afghanistan ( Khorasan )
Many think Uzbek and Temurids were different and others believe Uzbeks have not right to claim Temurids as ancestors. But we uzbeks believe it is our history, I wanted to explain how it's. 1) they both emerged from turko-mongol sphere 2) they have intermarriage relationships 3) both uzbek and temuri people speak same language Chagatayi Turkic After uzbek conquest all became uzbeks that's why we have 92 tribe and 3 big tribal confederations. I want to say thanks to creators work and research. Our central Asian culture and history is not well known. By this work many may know about this part of the world.
Uzbeks where divided in 3 waring khanates (khiva bukhara khoand) but in same time had together with other central asians a muslim based identity bevore the soviets raised the usbek soviet republik...was there a real usbek identity bevore?
@@milanvitu3963 Uzbek identity established as whole in Shaybanid era 1501-1600 then Ashtarkhanids 1601-1702. Uzbeks divided because of political instability and fighting outside invasions, you see after death of major ruler, his all family members tried to gaining power. It leads to rise local tribe chiefs higher positions and many become DeFacto ruler over puppet khans or established their own dynasty. In Khiva khanate there's "game of khans" changed khans 100 times in just 30 years. Bukhara khanate used to keep puppets 1711-1786 but then ruling clan Manghits become deJure rulers, it rise Fergana people against them and they established their own in 1710s. Firs Their main goal was keep Chinese and Kazakh invaders cause no army come from central government to rescue. There's still elements of pre unification Temurid time locals called "sart" or something and Shaybanids called "toza Uzbek" it's just classification.
"Uzbek" is the label came into use after the invasion of Uzbek tribe into Central Asia. The political rule belonged to Uzbek tribe, but the local population still were the same. Even the skull of Tamerlane clearly shows that he had a typcal Transoxianian appearance, which identical to modern day Central Asians
Biz kim mulku Turon, Amiri Turkistonmiz, Biz kim millatlarning eng ulug'i va buyugi Turkning bosh bo'g'inimiz. this is the one of the very famous sayings by Amir Temur. And I belive this is enough to claim Temur was Uzbek. And just saying the name Uzbek was not used at the time of Amir Temur is not reasonable enough. 1 nations will be called differently by different nations and it is also different depending on time period. Uzbeks were originally called Turks. Becouse separating the Turks were the plan from russion so they did not want any unity of Turks. separate the and control them is their anthem. Our anceters lived in these lands through the centuries and we share the same blood with them. Somethime I feel like waste of time explaining and proving to some1 why I am me ...
Yeah he was pretty much like an Uzbek in all ways and appearance, Uzbeks and Kazakhs and Kygrz look like Chinese people. Tamerlane was East Asian Mongoloid like Uzbeks. He was a very violent war lord, so don’t know if he’s someone to look up to. But at least you have your Alexander the Great.
Western historians often blinded with their own nation's military successes, ignore and often forget the influence Mongols had in the whole Asian continent, creating dynasties and vassals stretching from Korea and China all the way to Poland and Hungary. How can people ignore such an extraordinary influence, originating from one single man, Genghis Khan. Great documentary.
Isn't this man, Taimur killed all the inhabitants of Baghdad and Delhi, making pyramid of human skull to count the dead. One of the great killers in history
Wow, what a beautiful story, from the grandiose to the total disappearance, very interesting and sad but all is written History is there, it's undeniable, so I've just discovered where Babur, our emperor, came from. good work, thank you. Salam from Pakistan
Hikma please do a video on Mohammad Ali the Albanian of Egypt. He was a great conqueror but his name doesn't come whenever great conqueror names are mentioned
Yeah he was more brutal than the standard “accepted” brutality at the time, does that make him so much more of a villain than the other big names in that period who also did many questionable and dubious things for the sake of power?
@@BalochiStan-y2cI think it's more timurs hypocrisy in declaring himself the sword of Islam, when he himself was the biggest butcher of the Islamic people.
@@BalochiStan-y2c yeah, I'll be real, I don't understand his singular hatred of Timur. Like, Timur definitely did some messed up shit, but that was par for the course of central Asian conquerors.
@@TorvusVae Because Timur was a big lier when he justified his atrocities and didn't keep his word like in Damascus for example and his conquest destroyed major centers of learning and trade like Damascus, Aleppo, Delhi and Baghdad and the later he burned it 3 times also the city was still recovering from the Mongol conquest and don't make me start about Georgia
@@ShubhamMishrabro bruh learning BATTLE OF NİCOPOLİS 1396 AND THAT TİMURİD OTTOMAN ALLİANCE CONQUERED WHOLE EUROPE and europeans NOT POWERFULL SİNCE WW2
@Notreallyhereanymore i mean what is the chance timurids surviving constant invasion from Central asia. Turkey had a natural barrier as a border whereas iran was constantly attacked from Central asia and its Kingdom was replaced by them. And who said they couldn't be defeated? Times changes and technology too. Central asian invaders had advanced strategy and technology. Like Mughals were descendants of timurids and were defeated. Ottomans started losing from 16th century. Even if they survived there is no chance they can't be defeated where is innovation in technology. And last of all only tribes related to that empires are nostalgic for them as where is the choice of natives there is no chance natives would allow foreigners to rule them
@@ShubhamMishrabroottomans didn’t start declining till the late 18th century. Even then they were still a great power. It was only in the 19th century that they became the sick man of Europe. But during the 15th-17th centuries they were a, if not THE superpower.
@@HMMMM._-. research more. From late 1600s they started loosing their territories in central Europe which is why they gave up hungary. From then on they slowly started declining in europe. I made a mistake by saying the 16th century should have been the 17th century. They were already sick man of europe in 19th century. If you still don't think the 17th century is time then they definitely started declining in 18th century
Excellent video! The influence of Amir Timur and his successors would be seen in India - the Mughal Empire of which the many cultural achievements, warlike practises and constant succession wars would occur. Amir Timur reminds me of the great Sultan Muhammad Muhiyiddin Aurangzeb Alamgir, a man of capability and brutality!
@@lyonard9226 definitely horde path. An old playthrough of mine that I never quite managed to carry out was to go from Timurids to Yuan to Mongolian Empire, so I really liked that they gave Timurids a more official path to go that direction.
Amir Timur was a ruthless man and committed many sins, but no one is 100% evil. He also did many good deeds, such as fostering the sciences and knowledge during his reign, which helped lay the foundations for the Renaissance. Scholars from this period contributed to advancements that spread across the Muslim world, along with remarkable achievements in art and architecture. Allah is the Most Merciful and Just in His punishment. I pray He forgives him. Ameen.
@hikma history I have been looking for the picture you shown on 7:15 for years. Can you please let me know where you got it (please please please) thank you
Not a clear question! Defeating in what sense?? In military warfare there is no such phrase "to defeat". There are only strategic goals of the military campaign. What Timur was conducting towards China was a whole military campaign, which would last for several years. 1) Ming army was no match to the battle-hardened professional Timurid army, who brought all empires to their knees in Eurasia. 2) Ming army would probably use "scorched earth" tactics by avoiding to give a big one battle, which would finalize their fate in several hours. Ottomans, Mamluks, Indians, Golden Horde, all of them made this mistake and lost their military capability in one battle. 3) Even if Timur could manage to catch Ming army and destroy them, it would allow them to occupy Northern China, the Yellow River basin. Ming dynasty had enough resources to resist Timurid army in continuous battles. 4) Furthering the success southwards into the heartland of China, Yangtze river basin, would be practically impossible for Timurids, who had no supply line with their home. Thus, Timur's vision on this campaign would probably be not integrating Northern China into his empire due to the obvious geographical constraints. Without moving the core of his empire, Timur would not be able to control demographically powerful Northern China. China is a monumental prize, which would not be easy to handle as it was with Persia, Anatolia, Iraq, India. So, Timur would come and take whatever needs, then he would go back to Samarkand with a tick in the box "done" on his CV.
@@TerrorbelliDecuspacis-w5f totally disagree. The Ming dynasty was newly founded by Zhu Yuanzhang and just came out of a quick civil war and was led by the Yongle emperor, the most martial of Zhu Yuanzhang’s sons. The Prince of Yan was equally use to leading armies in the war against the Mongols, his multiple expeditions into Mongolia attest to that fact. The Ming military he led specialized in fighting Mongol armies like Timur’s and were eager to fight and well known foe. Where Timur could field hundreds of thousands, the Ming could field millions of combat veterans. I think there is a reason that for decades Timur acknowledged the Ming as his overlord and he as their loyal vassal.
@@Nom_AnorVSJedi This could have been the battle of the century that never happened. the battle of the century’s medieval world was the Battle of yehuling
Hikma dude - it would be a great transition if you did a documentary about Hazrat Aurangzeb Alamgir (RA). I would also be interested in a comprehensive set of documentaries about how the Crusades began and ended with the rise of the Mamluks, especially Sultan Baybars (RA) and Qalawun (RA). This would allow you to talk about the Abbasids, Seljuks, Fatimids, Zengids, Hazrat Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi (RA), Assassins and culminating with the Mamaluks.
Вся жизнь Тимура с 16 лет до 72 лет это сплошная война. И человек всегда побеждает врагов, в любых климатических условиях, в любом конце света. Человек достоин своего имени (Тимур означает "железный")
Any real history enthusiast knows that Timur is the greatest general world has ever seen.Undefeated and his army was unprecedented until 19th century in terms of logistics and discipline
Actually Tamerlane has been quite well known in the west thanks largely to a sixteenth play by Christopher Marlowe in Shakespearean times (I had to study the play at University and I love the lines "To entertain divine Zenocrates" -purple prose if ever there was!) and then I discovered the Italian language opera by Handel called "Tamerlano" an absolute masterpiece and also similar ones from the same era by Vivaldi and Gasparini but here he is seen from the vantage point of his great rival Bajazet the Ottoman sultan.
Если тебе в твоей стране в уроках истории не учили историю Тимура, это не значит что он на свалке истории. Наоборот место твоему учебнику истории на свалке😅😅😅
In the Baburnama, Babur also refers to himself as Timurid Gurkhaniya and actually has a very negative opinion of Mughals or Mongols, calling them Barbarians. The author Aabhas Maldhaiyir says that's because the Babur by that time was highly urbanized and was influenced by Persia and Persian culture a lot. He had a disdain for mughals. It's a shame that the Timurids Gurkhaniya are called something they hated, Mughals.
@sohamdhoptey1466 People who look like they have small eyes and a strange shape that look like native Chinese or Turks, but they are trapped underground.
@sohamdhoptey1466 No, Timur spoke Persian because his father, the leader of the tribe, used to read it, but Timur’s father, the ruler of the tribe, was a weak person, and his son used to tell me not to oppress a person or kill a person unjustly, but it seems that Timur did not love his father.
А где-то нашли эти черепа? Есть доказательства? А у меня есть свежие доказательства, черепы 15000 палестинских детей, казненных мировыми сионистами. И как думаешь какая может быть размеры минарета сделанных из черепов невинных палестинских детей? И вы свиньи, имеете права рассуждать Тимура после этого?
Central Asians have played a significant role in the history of Islam, including the Seljuks, Zengids, Mamluks, Ottomans, Timurids, Safavids, and the Mughals. I love the history and admire the legacy.
+ Gaznavids, Kharazmians, Karakhanids(frst muslim turkic state), Shaybanids, (who is the reason why ca is still sunni Muslim) and some more which I cannot remember now )
@temurkhan9601 - absolutely. Ghaznavids also come under the umbrella of Turkic Mamaluks in terms of their origin. Shah Mahomood Ghaznavi (RA) is a great hero of Islam with a phenomenal legacy.
Central Asians destroyed Islamic history, caused the Middle East to become poor, and decadent, Turks and Mongols used Islam to save face while committing genocide and slavery, at least Central Asia remains in poverty. Along with Turkey. Serves them right. For their ancestors crimes.
I didn't know to this day my sunnah operator professor ULUGH ELDEGEZ my father's friend in Istanbul was named after the grandson of Emperor Timur ! Wow Allahu Akbar
Definitely one of the greatest conquerors in the history the Uzbek khan was as we all know merciless although the timurid empire didn’t last as long as the Ottoman Empire for example he will remain in the history forever as brutal turko mongol warrior…. The battle of Ankara 1402 The sultan Bayezid the thunderbolt was his captif and died later on that’s quite something making a ottoman Sultan his prisoners I don’t want to mention that he was bloodthirsty because in the middle age everyone was savage in a way
Timurid empire lived until 1858! Timurid princes ruled over the richest and most powerful land, India. All great mughal emperors, called themselve "timurid-gurkhani". The Timurid India possessed 26% of world economy. Ottomans were a regional power, imprisoned in the lake! they never had access into the world ocean! They could not influence on the world affairs
Timur Lang was a tyrant of Delhi. When a single Timur Solder was killed by someone in an argument Timur ordered a massacer of Dehi killing hundreds of innocent people. He was just like Narendra Modi. PM of India killing 2,000 Muslim, men, women and children in Gujrat state. It has gone done in History of India From London, England.
Alexander's line died out but the Diadochi states lasted longer than the Timurids. Ptolemic, Selucid, Antigonid and the Epiriteswere around for centuries
When determining the greatness of an empire, which factor do you hold in higher esteem - longevity or legacy?
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Personally, I'd say legacy, but the two go hand in hand. The longer your empire lasts, the bigger your legacy can be.
@@brookechang4942 Fair point. I'd agree, legacy weighs more.
All empires left legacies regardless of how long they lasted!
The foremost question here should be how do we justify whether an empire's legacy is great or inglorious.
Please do the Sokoto Sultanate next 🙏🏾
@@HikmaHistory please make a video about Nader Shah please
Timur is criminally underrated as one of history’s great (and brutal) conquerors. Fashioned himself the second coming of Genghis Khan, and lived up to the hype. Liking this video!
Couldn’t agree more. My favourite thing about him is that most of his conquests came in the last decade of his life. The 2/3 decades before he spent consolidating his realm and rule. It’s a shame he didn’t have the foresight to know the succession crisis that was to come!
Oh, shut up history dose
I would bet my soul you would never dare speak about Hitler in the same fashion. Why are Westeners so hypocritical. It's mind boggling..
While you guys glorify like that we German can't glorify our Austrian painters hero 😢
Turkic were great until they meet thier father Mongols
Thank you a lot for including Temurid Empire in your channel’s history. Love your channel from Uzbekistan 🇺🇿.
Rahmat!
He was mongol
"A man does evil deeds, and all his days Are filled with luck and universal praise; Another's good in all he does - he dies A wretched, broken man whom all despise"
- Abulqasem Ferdowsi (Persian Poet)
This is the truth of this life, reminds me of the Bible in job. When Job states that he who blinds the eyes of the judges is God, from whose hand do we receive evil and Good.
Tomyris fills a wineskin with blood, and when she comes across Cyrus' body on the field, she stuffs his head into the wineskin, saying σὲ δ'ἐγὼ, κατά περ ἠπείλησα, αἵματος κορέσω -- "Just as I threatened, I will give you your fill of blood." (1.214.5)
Herodotus
@@JosephArimathea29To be clear that's not meant to be a strictly true statement from Job, I don't think any Abrahamic religion truly believes God created evil
Chad ferdowsi still speaking facts after 1000 yrs
Timur/Tammerlane is notable for his destruction of the Nestorian Christian societies in the areas he conquered. He typically built mosques over the Nestorian churches and monasteries he leveled. Christianity became a European phenomenon after 1400 because it was persecuted out of existence in Asia (and most of Africa outside Ethiopia). (This is the assertion of the book The lost history of Christianity by a Cambridge scholar)
"Greatest Empire You've Never Heard Of..." man thinks we haven't played EU4
Haha!
Or EU3!
Timur has a reputation, but I was not expecting screaming camels on fire. One can empathise with the elephants.
Ты бы лучше сочувствовал десяткам тысяч погибшим детям Палестины
@@muhammaduzbek3658sighs🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️, these comments not gonna make any change
@@muhammaduzbek3658I prefer god’s animals and camels over balestinians
@@deathbyglo9080Мы ещё посмотрим. Если враги ислама (и их подельники) думают что, это конец истории, глубоко ошибаются.
@@muhammaduzbek3658You’d think after a thousand years of slaughtering each other into a stalemate, you religious zealots would learn to get along. Oh well, I guess it makes the history books more interesting.
My sixth grade teacher in Brooklyn covered this empire and the man it was named after. I remember being fascinated. Thanks for posting.
Thanks a bunch for sharing this with us Big Dog!
Great documentary on one of the greatest emperors and empires in history. Like you said, the Timurid Empire is highly underrated and needs to be brought onto the spotlight more often. Keep up the good efforts my friend!
Hi Hikma,
Thank you for making a video about our ancestors. Timur reestablished Central Asian Turkic power, culture, and ancient cities, which had been totally destroyed by Genghis Khan 150 years earlier. Timur's grandson Ulugh Beg became a great astronomer, and his student Ali Qushji continued his work in Istanbul. Babur, a direct descendant of Timur, founded the Mughal Empire in India, which lasted for 300 years.
Are you a Chagatai Turk.
Reestablished cultures and ancient cities buy butchering millions of innocents and destroying cities.
@@Eastern_Egale Ahaha Timur himself and his army and nation all were turkic. They were not German speaking nation as you think.
@@RajaRam_electrician Yes, we called Uzbeks today.
@@Eastern_Egale open Google, search for Temurid rennessans, read the whole articles on wiki or other sites. You will see it's also called Turkic rennessans and beginning of gunpowder empires.
can't wait to watch!
BTW, the Persian art you have selected for that presentation is just fantastic.
Interesting and informative as always!
Excellent work! I admire your dedication.
Keep it up Hikma, great video like always!
Appreciate it!
This was awesome. I like your presentation of the material which allows for a better understanding - thanks
Timur is so underrated in history. Can’t believe he’s not spoken about more.
Couldn’t agree more!
He killed to many people so there's nothing left to tell his story @@HikmaHistory
It because he was muslim. And he did not destroyed Ottoman empire. If he destroyed Ottoman empire and the brutally murder 25% human. Then the hole today told him the greatest conqueror not genghis khan
Reasons he's less famous:
1. Genghis Khan and his successors had a bigger Empire and revolutionized the world stage.
2. Very little in the form of legacy - Alexander spread Hellenic culture for instance and founded many cities. His successor states lasted for centuries before being conquered by the Romans/Parthians.
3. In relation to the 2 above, Timur didnt seem very interested in building empire and/or spreading "timurid" culture.
Btw the timurids figure heavily in gaming, for instance medieval 2 TW and AOE2.
@@daarom3472 No. That's not. Genghis lhan one of the successor the golden hord was defeated by timur.In case he made a successful invasion in indian were Mongol were defeated every time. And he conquered the persian land like the Mongol did. So he wanted to made a new mongol empire.
This is very interesting and very is nicely done.
Appreciate it!
Thanks for this. Can't really find any good documentaries on the Timurids.
Glad you like it!
Great presentation of History. Thanks
Great video thank you 👏
7:44 excellent word play my friend
Internal Conflicts is what brings any "mighty" Empire to Collapse. That is the Lesson History teaches us.
Poe's Tamerlane poem is actually pretty interesting. It portrays Timur as a man who gives up the people and home he loves to go off and fulfill his ambitions of conquest and rulership. He achieves that dream but comes to regret his decision after it's too late to go back. Poe wrote the poem in his later teens after the loss of several beloved family members as well as other struggles in his life and he was using the (very loose) story of Timur as an outlet for his own heartache and sense of loss rather than attempting to portray the man's life with any accuracy.
(Funnily enough, Timur might have appreciated Poe's work had he been around to read it. The man was quite enamored of poetry and scholarship, hence why he forcibly imported so many intellectuals and skilled artisans from the populations he conquered/slaughtered. Like you say in the video, he was a complex person.)
Persian gardens also influenced those made in Europe from the seventeenth century onwards.
Babe wake up, Hikma History made a new video.
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It definitely be like that.. videos be loop mode 🔁
it really interesting to see the timeline of Timurid Empire how it shaped and changed the world
Everyone Trying to become their Ancestor Chinggis Khan
Started from the step of Mongolia Ended in the Yangon, Myanmar
Тамерлан никогда себя НЕ считал потомком Чингизхана и по этому он взял Титул Эмир.
потомки Чингизхан носили титул Хан
Timur was not and did not consider himself as descendant of Gengis Khan. He carried the title "Amir" and Mongols carried "Khan.
Fantastic video!
10:00 Imagine if you've never seen an elephant before in your life, the biggest animal you've seen is maybe a bear or a moose, and then you see hundreds of war elephants decked out in armor. No wonder they were afraid. 😮
Look at how Timur managed with this fear of war elephants in Delhi, and how ottomans were terrified and lost the battle.
That's exactly what happened when Rome conquered Britain in 43AD. Emperor Claudius entered London on top of an African Elephant. The Brits were shocked, they thought he was a god. 😂😂😂😂. They had never seen an elephant ever in their lives.
Good content bro
Great image reel.. subd!
1) “If you want to see our power, look at the buildings we have built” written on the facade of Aksaray (translated like "White palace", most propably American White House was inspired from)
2) Today only foundation of the gate of Aksaray survived. Attention! Only foundation of the gate!
3) The height of this gate foundation today is almost equal to the height of Hagia Sophia!
4) The real size of his building should be really intimidating for his age, even today.
The white house was actually built by an Irish guy who modeled after the leinster house in irelandm
@@williamruth7586 So what? This is not a news and it does not invalidate my point. Timur was the first monarch to make the supreme residence of nation white. US nation was just inspired by this Timurid statehood tradition. They just changed the "palace" to "house" for obvious political- ideological reasons
@@TerrorbelliDecuspacis-w5f actually it's called the White House because Teddy Roosevelt officially named it in 1902 the White House after its popular nickname.
Prior to that it was originally called President's Palace and the Executive Mansion throughout the years
your research and presentation are always fantastic but I wish you'd put a running timeline so we can always see the approximate year, that would make things easier to follow
Great suggestion! Now I just gotta figure out how to do that
Fantastic video! I've been slowly getting through Timur's life. Definitely a forgotten portion of history that doesn't get the attention it deserves!
Good to hear from you dude, tried contacting you on Twitter a bunch!
@@HikmaHistory Oh shoot I'm sorry! I was off of twitter for several years.
@@timurpodcast4379 No worries, when can the viewers expect new episodes of the podcast?
@@HikmaHistory Workin on my next episode now!
@@timurpodcast4379 What's it on?
Thanks you. Perhaps the Ilkhanate, the Golden Horde and the Seljuks will be next.
The first two I have no plans as of yet but the last one, yes I plan on it!
@hikmahistory you are getting better with every video especially the narration.
bro made this at the perfect time for me lmao I was just getting back into learning abt Timur
Thank you for this excellent video! I knew only a little bit about Timur's conquests (and his famous brutality, like so many conquerors before him) in central and southern Asia before watching this. I knew virtually nothing about his legacy or the fate of his empire before watching this. Thank you for teaching me a lot with this one!
God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
He was born 35 km far from my village . Kamashi region kashkadarya uzbekistan.
He was one of the few historical figures who talked his stuff and backed it up big time while standing on business.
Nice doc boss!!
Thanks bro
No one's talking about the Amir Prince/ A mere prince pun, but that was smooth.
Haha one of my proudest moments!
Ever heard about Umer ibn Khattab? Conquered 2.2 million square miles in 10 years and maintained Government to the level than nobody ever dared to revolt or disobey him.
I believe it was largely because he was the Khaliph and Amir al-Mu'minin.
The Golden Age of Herat ( the pearl of Khorasan ) was during the descendants of Timur and there were thousand of scholars in Herat, and even his period is called the Renaissance of east.
and probably one of the best years of Afghanistan ( Khorasan )
Many think Uzbek and Temurids were different and others believe Uzbeks have not right to claim Temurids as ancestors. But we uzbeks believe it is our history, I wanted to explain how it's.
1) they both emerged from turko-mongol sphere
2) they have intermarriage relationships
3) both uzbek and temuri people speak same language Chagatayi Turkic
After uzbek conquest all became uzbeks that's why we have 92 tribe and 3 big tribal confederations.
I want to say thanks to creators work and research. Our central Asian culture and history is not well known. By this work many may know about this part of the world.
Uzbeks where divided in 3 waring khanates (khiva bukhara khoand) but in same time had together with other central asians a muslim based identity bevore the soviets raised the usbek soviet republik...was there a real usbek identity bevore?
@@milanvitu3963 Uzbek identity established as whole in Shaybanid era 1501-1600 then Ashtarkhanids 1601-1702. Uzbeks divided because of political instability and fighting outside invasions, you see after death of major ruler, his all family members tried to gaining power. It leads to rise local tribe chiefs higher positions and many become DeFacto ruler over puppet khans or established their own dynasty.
In Khiva khanate there's "game of khans" changed khans 100 times in just 30 years. Bukhara khanate used to keep puppets 1711-1786 but then ruling clan Manghits become deJure rulers, it rise Fergana people against them and they established their own in 1710s. Firs Their main goal was keep Chinese and Kazakh invaders cause no army come from central government to rescue. There's still elements of pre unification Temurid time locals called "sart" or something and Shaybanids called "toza Uzbek" it's just classification.
"Uzbek" is the label came into use after the invasion of Uzbek tribe into Central Asia. The political rule belonged to Uzbek tribe, but the local population still were the same. Even the skull of Tamerlane clearly shows that he had a typcal Transoxianian appearance, which identical to modern day Central Asians
Biz kim mulku Turon, Amiri Turkistonmiz, Biz kim millatlarning eng ulug'i va buyugi Turkning bosh bo'g'inimiz. this is the one of the very famous sayings by Amir Temur. And I belive this is enough to claim Temur was Uzbek. And just saying the name Uzbek was not used at the time of Amir Temur is not reasonable enough.
1 nations will be called differently by different nations and it is also different depending on time period.
Uzbeks were originally called Turks. Becouse separating the Turks were the plan from russion so they did not want any unity of Turks. separate the and control them is their anthem. Our anceters lived in these lands through the centuries and we share the same blood with them. Somethime I feel like waste of time explaining and proving to some1 why I am me ...
Yeah he was pretty much like an Uzbek in all ways and appearance, Uzbeks and Kazakhs and Kygrz look like Chinese people. Tamerlane was East Asian Mongoloid like Uzbeks. He was a very violent war lord, so don’t know if he’s someone to look up to. But at least you have your Alexander the Great.
Western historians often blinded with their own nation's military successes, ignore and often forget the influence Mongols had in the whole Asian continent, creating dynasties and vassals stretching from Korea and China all the way to Poland and Hungary. How can people ignore such an extraordinary influence, originating from one single man, Genghis Khan. Great documentary.
good informative....
Isn't this man, Taimur killed all the inhabitants of Baghdad and Delhi, making pyramid of human skull to count the dead. One of the great killers in history
@@randomuser-xc2wrTbilisi was also sacked and destroyed by Timur
Wow, what a beautiful story, from the grandiose to the total disappearance, very interesting and sad but all is written History is there, it's undeniable, so I've just discovered where Babur, our emperor, came from. good work, thank you. Salam from Pakistan
Hikma History there is a reason why I have no girlfriend and know of the Timurids cuz I played Paradox games like CK3 and EU4!
Amazing❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@HikmaHistory I truly enjoyed it . Your art is reaching out well to support great substance of your work🌹
great video bro, but i hope you make video about the safavids
Hikma please do a video on Mohammad Ali the Albanian of Egypt. He was a great conqueror but his name doesn't come whenever great conqueror names are mentioned
very interested in his, his son Ibrahim and grandson Ismail's life story - so don't be surprised if you see such a video!
I've been watching you and Al-Muqadimma for a couple years now, I've definitely heard of the Timurids, lol
Al-muqadimmah is a hater when it comes to Timur. Just because he was a better conqueror than the other conquerors at the time.
Yeah he was more brutal than the standard “accepted” brutality at the time, does that make him so much more of a villain than the other big names in that period who also did many questionable and dubious things for the sake of power?
@@BalochiStan-y2cI think it's more timurs hypocrisy in declaring himself the sword of Islam, when he himself was the biggest butcher of the Islamic people.
@@BalochiStan-y2c yeah, I'll be real, I don't understand his singular hatred of Timur. Like, Timur definitely did some messed up shit, but that was par for the course of central Asian conquerors.
@@TorvusVae
Because Timur was a big lier when he justified his atrocities and didn't keep his word like in Damascus for example and his conquest destroyed major centers of learning and trade like Damascus, Aleppo, Delhi and Baghdad and the later he burned it 3 times also the city was still recovering from the Mongol conquest and don't make me start about Georgia
Good video
"Amir, prince....but he would become more than a mere prince" 😂😂😂
35:39
Excellent video 📹
Watched it twice
Again, the winter of Russia, defeated great dreams.
Guy just shows up and ruins your Medieval 2 Total War campaign and then leaves without explaining himself. What a chad
Amazing empire great turco mongolian dynasties too terima kasih-thx for made n share this video documentary
Only if the Timurids and Ottomans became allies and fought against others maybe both would still exist 😭😭😭
You talk like Europeans wouldn't get powerful. Times change. You're still nostalgic about old age empires
@@ShubhamMishrabro bruh learning BATTLE OF NİCOPOLİS 1396 AND THAT TİMURİD OTTOMAN ALLİANCE CONQUERED WHOLE EUROPE and europeans NOT POWERFULL SİNCE WW2
@Notreallyhereanymore i mean what is the chance timurids surviving constant invasion from Central asia. Turkey had a natural barrier as a border whereas iran was constantly attacked from Central asia and its Kingdom was replaced by them. And who said they couldn't be defeated? Times changes and technology too. Central asian invaders had advanced strategy and technology. Like Mughals were descendants of timurids and were defeated. Ottomans started losing from 16th century. Even if they survived there is no chance they can't be defeated where is innovation in technology. And last of all only tribes related to that empires are nostalgic for them as where is the choice of natives there is no chance natives would allow foreigners to rule them
@@ShubhamMishrabroottomans didn’t start declining till the late 18th century. Even then they were still a great power. It was only in the 19th century that they became the sick man of Europe. But during the 15th-17th centuries they were a, if not THE superpower.
@@HMMMM._-. research more. From late 1600s they started loosing their territories in central Europe which is why they gave up hungary. From then on they slowly started declining in europe. I made a mistake by saying the 16th century should have been the 17th century. They were already sick man of europe in 19th century. If you still don't think the 17th century is time then they definitely started declining in 18th century
Excellent video! The influence of Amir Timur and his successors would be seen in India - the Mughal Empire of which the many cultural achievements, warlike practises and constant succession wars would occur. Amir Timur reminds me of the great Sultan Muhammad Muhiyiddin Aurangzeb Alamgir, a man of capability and brutality!
Aurangzeb is grand-grandson of Timur
Somehow you don't mention the different religious beliefs at the time but it's the best👍👍👍
I find it crazy that the only reason why i found out about this empire is when i played Medieval 2 total war I can't believe schools don't teach this
I'm playing as them in EU4 right now as this came across recommendations :D
Do you plan to form the Mughals? Or maybe Persia? Or stay as the Timurids and play the horde path?
@@lyonard9226 definitely horde path. An old playthrough of mine that I never quite managed to carry out was to go from Timurids to Yuan to Mongolian Empire, so I really liked that they gave Timurids a more official path to go that direction.
13:51 Actually Bayezid was called ''Thunderbolt'' after 1386 Battle of Frenkyazısı.
Amir Timur was a ruthless man and committed many sins, but no one is 100% evil. He also did many good deeds, such as fostering the sciences and knowledge during his reign, which helped lay the foundations for the Renaissance. Scholars from this period contributed to advancements that spread across the Muslim world, along with remarkable achievements in art and architecture. Allah is the Most Merciful and Just in His punishment. I pray He forgives him. Ameen.
You can see the influence of Iran on the buildings and clothing styles on central Asia
@hikma history I have been looking for the picture you shown on 7:15 for years. Can you please let me know where you got it (please please please) thank you
8:50 are any of these still standing?
You should mention that all Muslims scholars at the time deemed him a heretic.
nice video! - where do you source your images/maps?
You were recommended by another channel :)
Biz kim mulki Turon Amiri Turkiston millatlarning eng uluği Turkning bosh bòğinimiz
AMIR TEMUR (TAMERLANE)
You should make a full video on the Uzbek khanate; especially abu’l Khayr Khan and Muhammad Shaybani
Please do a video on the Ayyubid empire and great video btw
Could Timur have defeated the Ming?
He had the resources and capacity to field hundreds of thousands of soldiers
Not a clear question! Defeating in what sense??
In military warfare there is no such phrase "to defeat". There are only strategic goals of the military campaign.
What Timur was conducting towards China was a whole military campaign, which would last for several years.
1) Ming army was no match to the battle-hardened professional Timurid army, who brought all empires to their knees in Eurasia.
2) Ming army would probably use "scorched earth" tactics by avoiding to give a big one battle, which would finalize their fate in several hours. Ottomans, Mamluks, Indians, Golden Horde, all of them made this mistake and lost their military capability in one battle.
3) Even if Timur could manage to catch Ming army and destroy them, it would allow them to occupy Northern China, the Yellow River basin. Ming dynasty had enough resources to resist Timurid army in continuous battles.
4) Furthering the success southwards into the heartland of China, Yangtze river basin, would be practically impossible for Timurids, who had no supply line with their home.
Thus, Timur's vision on this campaign would probably be not integrating Northern China into his empire due to the obvious geographical constraints. Without moving the core of his empire, Timur would not be able to control demographically powerful Northern China. China is a monumental prize, which would not be easy to handle as it was with Persia, Anatolia, Iraq, India. So, Timur would come and take whatever needs, then he would go back to Samarkand with a tick in the box "done" on his CV.
@@TerrorbelliDecuspacis-w5f totally disagree. The Ming dynasty was newly founded by Zhu Yuanzhang and just came out of a quick civil war and was led by the Yongle emperor, the most martial of Zhu Yuanzhang’s sons. The Prince of Yan was equally use to leading armies in the war against the Mongols, his multiple expeditions into Mongolia attest to that fact. The Ming military he led specialized in fighting Mongol armies like Timur’s and were eager to fight and well known foe. Where Timur could field hundreds of thousands, the Ming could field millions of combat veterans. I think there is a reason that for decades Timur acknowledged the Ming as his overlord and he as their loyal vassal.
@@Brandonhayhew the Ming could field millions. The dynasty was newly established.
@@Nom_AnorVSJedi This could have been the battle of the century that never happened. the battle of the century’s medieval world was the Battle of yehuling
Hikma dude - it would be a great transition if you did a documentary about Hazrat Aurangzeb Alamgir (RA).
I would also be interested in a comprehensive set of documentaries about how the Crusades began and ended with the rise of the Mamluks, especially Sultan Baybars (RA) and Qalawun (RA).
This would allow you to talk about the Abbasids, Seljuks, Fatimids, Zengids, Hazrat Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi (RA), Assassins and culminating with the Mamaluks.
Thank you very much ffor your excellent History of Timurid Documentary. From London, England. I was born in Delhi, India.
Timur was playing Mount and Blade IRL
Вся жизнь Тимура с 16 лет до 72 лет это сплошная война. И человек всегда побеждает врагов, в любых климатических условиях, в любом конце света.
Человек достоин своего имени (Тимур означает "железный")
He was so brutal to Muslims that they removed him from histroy books
Any real history enthusiast knows that Timur is the greatest general world has ever seen.Undefeated and his army was unprecedented until 19th century in terms of logistics and discipline
The great grandfather of the Mughal Empire and its emperors.
He couldn’t nomenclature himself a khan, thus settled for a Amir, a prince, but he would go on to become more than a mere prince
Actually Tamerlane has been quite well known in the west thanks largely to a sixteenth play by Christopher Marlowe in Shakespearean times (I had to study the play at University and I love the lines "To entertain divine Zenocrates" -purple prose if ever there was!) and then I discovered the Italian language opera by Handel called "Tamerlano" an absolute masterpiece and also similar ones from the same era by Vivaldi and Gasparini but here he is seen from the vantage point of his great rival Bajazet the Ottoman sultan.
Never a boring day in the Timurid Empire, right?
Timur victims
Arabs
Persians
Mongols
North india/ delhiites
Ottomans
Georgians
Chechens
India where empires go to die of excess & decadence
Thanks to you, Timur’s glory can remain illuminated forever, instead of being relegated to the dustbin of history, where he languished for so long
Если тебе в твоей стране в уроках истории не учили историю Тимура, это не значит что он на свалке истории. Наоборот место твоему учебнику истории на свалке😅😅😅
In the Baburnama, Babur also refers to himself as Timurid Gurkhaniya and actually has a very negative opinion of Mughals or Mongols, calling them Barbarians. The author Aabhas Maldhaiyir says that's because the Babur by that time was highly urbanized and was influenced by Persia and Persian culture a lot. He had a disdain for mughals. It's a shame that the Timurids Gurkhaniya are called something they hated, Mughals.
You mean Gog and Magog, they resemble Gog and Magog in appearance 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@عليياسر-ك9ظ what? What is Gog and Magog ?
@sohamdhoptey1466 People who look like they have small eyes and a strange shape that look like native Chinese or Turks, but they are trapped underground.
@@عليياسر-ك9ظ okay, but like Babur looked the same, he was the direct blood descendant of Timur. He just didn't associate with their culture anymore.
@sohamdhoptey1466 No, Timur spoke Persian because his father, the leader of the tribe, used to read it, but Timur’s father, the ruler of the tribe, was a weak person, and his son used to tell me not to oppress a person or kill a person unjustly, but it seems that Timur did not love his father.
Damn, skull mountain is savage!
А где-то нашли эти черепа? Есть доказательства?
А у меня есть свежие доказательства, черепы 15000 палестинских детей, казненных мировыми сионистами.
И как думаешь какая может быть размеры минарета сделанных из черепов невинных палестинских детей?
И вы свиньи, имеете права рассуждать Тимура после этого?
Central Asians have played a significant role in the history of Islam, including the Seljuks, Zengids, Mamluks, Ottomans, Timurids, Safavids, and the Mughals. I love the history and admire the legacy.
+ Gaznavids, Kharazmians, Karakhanids(frst muslim turkic state), Shaybanids, (who is the reason why ca is still sunni Muslim) and some more which I cannot remember now )
@temurkhan9601 - absolutely. Ghaznavids also come under the umbrella of Turkic Mamaluks in terms of their origin. Shah Mahomood Ghaznavi (RA) is a great hero of Islam with a phenomenal legacy.
@@poet.alhashimi Sultan Mahmood Ghaznavi. The first Turkic Sultan ever
Central Asians destroyed Islamic history, caused the Middle East to become poor, and decadent, Turks and Mongols used Islam to save face while committing genocide and slavery, at least Central Asia remains in poverty. Along with Turkey. Serves them right. For their ancestors crimes.
I didn't know to this day my sunnah operator professor ULUGH ELDEGEZ my father's friend in Istanbul was named after the grandson of Emperor Timur ! Wow
Allahu Akbar
Definitely one of the greatest conquerors in the history the Uzbek khan was as we all know merciless although the timurid empire didn’t last as long as the Ottoman Empire for example he will remain in the history forever as brutal turko mongol warrior…. The battle of Ankara 1402 The sultan Bayezid the thunderbolt was his captif and died later on that’s quite something making a ottoman Sultan his prisoners I don’t want to mention that he was bloodthirsty because in the middle age everyone was savage in a way
Timurid empire lived until 1858! Timurid princes ruled over the richest and most powerful land, India. All great mughal emperors, called themselve "timurid-gurkhani". The Timurid India possessed 26% of world economy. Ottomans were a regional power, imprisoned in the lake! they never had access into the world ocean! They could not influence on the world affairs
I wonder when their patent on horse-archers will expire? Seems pretty OP.
I like to call it the nuclear bomb of the medieval period
Timur Lang was a tyrant of Delhi. When a single Timur Solder was killed by someone in an argument Timur ordered a massacer of Dehi killing hundreds of innocent people. He was just like Narendra Modi. PM of India killing 2,000 Muslim, men, women and children in Gujrat state. It has gone done in History of India From London, England.
😂 so what
When?? was you on drugs or what😂😂
10:50 What a preposterous thing to say out loud.
Timur operated on different rules!
❤ nice
Swag 😎
The Tamerids lasted longer than Alexander's did. Yet, Funky Alex is the much better known tale. Eurocentrism rocks!
Because Alexander reached unknown lands while being undefeated during ancient times. Not easy seeing the circumstances
Mostly a function of timing more than anything. Alexander established an empire of completely unknown proportions some 1500 years before Timur.
Alexander's line died out but the Diadochi states lasted longer than the Timurids. Ptolemic, Selucid, Antigonid and the Epiriteswere around for centuries
Aw are you crying?
Please Make a video on Ottoman sultan sultan Selim 1.
Persia has always been a good starting point to start an empire.
Persian always control buy to by turk