historiandaily:uhpersonal:historiandaily:“When I rise from the dead, the world shall tremble.&
historiandaily:uhpersonal:historiandaily:“When I rise from the dead, the world shall tremble.”“Who ever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.”-alleged script from Timur’s tomb and casketFebruary 18, 1405- After a lifetime of conquest and war, on the march to defeat the one power in the world who could even dare to challenge him, Timur, also known as Tamerlane, dies en route to invade Ming China. Starting out as the leader of a small raiding band, Timur would become the master of an empire spanning from his his capital at Samarkand, down into India, across Afghanistan and all of Iran, to Baghdad, Anatolia, and the Caucasus, though he never took a title for himself higher than Emir. Despite his brutal tactics and nature, the storied pyramids of skulls, Samarkand became a center of culture and art in the Islamic world. He spread Persian learning to Transoxiana and Timurid architecture, itself inspired by a mosque in Damascus, would evolve into the onion domes of Russian churches and the beautiful spires of the Taj Mahal. ‘Then shall my native city, Samarcanda… Be famous through the furthest continents, For there my palace-royal shall be placed, Whose shining turrets shall dismay the heavens, And cast the fame of Iion’s tower to hell.’ -Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the GreatPicture- A forensic facial reconstruction of Timur by M. Gerasimov (1941).The first and second quote relates to the legend which claimed that the opening of Timur’s tomb in 1941 sparked the beginning ofWorld War II.Quite correct, that’s why I wrote “alleged”. That quote/legend is one of my favorites and it was too good to pass up for this post. But I didn’t want to present it as solid fact. -- source link
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