Did Tamerlane (Timor Lank) Create Empires?
There is this army commander of the 14th century who kept his army on the march longer (for over 25 years) and crossed more lands than Alexander, Genghis Khan, or Attila and conquered more Empires and was never defeated and slept in his tent, outside city-limits, even in his Capital Samarkand (in current Uzbekistan). The Persian gave him the nickname Lank because he was slightly lame in one leg. This is Timor Lank who was not the son of any Monarch, prince, or even a tribal leader. Timor Lank was from the Caucasus region (probably around the region of Azerbaijan and Chechnya (I get pretty upset when history authors fail to located current geographical areas and just paste the ancient names); he was a Moslem and veneered Imams claimed to be descendents of the Prophet Muhammad’s family. He killed mostly Moslems since the vast area of his operations were mostly Islam Land. First, Timor Lank chase out the Tatar “Golden Hordes” (led by a descendent of Genghis Khan) along the Volga River (Cu
