The Greatest Empire You've Never Heard Of! | Timurid Documentary

Medieval Islamic history is dominated by Turco-Mongolian dynasties. One of the most impactful of these was the Timurids. Named after its ferocious and legendary founder Timur, who would take his armies across Central Asia, Persia, India, Russia and the Middle East - vanquishing anybody that stood in his way. In the wake of his death in 1405, his successors fought over the scraps of empire, leading to its political decline over the next century. Despite this, Timurid cities such as Herat and Samarkand retained its place as centres of learning and art, inaugurating a period referred to as the Timurid Renaissance. At the same time as civil wars between family members were destroying the territorial integrity of the realm, incredible buildings were being constructed and leading scholars were finding patronage. This is the story of the Timurids.
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0:00 Intro
1:39 Timur's Early Life
5:07 Becoming Amir & Consolidating His Territory
7:50 Timur's Epic Run Of Conquests
17:25 Timur's Legacy
19:26 Succession Crisis & Shah Rukh's Ascension
26:22 Timurid Renaissance
29:57 Second Timurid Civil War
32:38 Abu Said's Reign
35:36 Third Timurid Civil War & Collapse

[@HikmaHistory]

When determining the greatness of an empire, which factor do you hold in higher esteem - longevity or legacy? Full Documentary Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLiPhmAD3I2Jz-1xQ0POURRX_Q-6Jxo17A&si=0B9sbSJNLU4f1b9x

[@brookechang4942]

Personally, I'd say legacy, but the two go hand in hand. The longer your empire lasts, the bigger your legacy can be.

[@HikmaHistory]

@@brookechang4942 Fair point. I'd agree, legacy weighs more.

[@user-pc3ts8yc5b]

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.

[@faadiloloriegbe2433]

Please do the Sokoto Sultanate next 🙏🏾

[@shzarmai]

​​@@HikmaHistory please make a video about Nader Shah please

[@HistoryDose]

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!

[@HikmaHistory]

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!

[@ironmiketyson220]

Oh, shut up history dose

[@TravelBandit]

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..

[@Kimgangze]

While you guys glorify like that we German can't glorify our Austrian painters hero 😢

[@Kimgangze]

Turkic were great until they meet thier father Mongols

[@andyb281]

"Greatest Empire You've Never Heard Of..." man thinks we haven't played EU4

[@HikmaHistory]

Haha!

[@Caiser-e-Rum]

Thank you a lot for including Temurid Empire in your channel’s history. Love your channel from Uzbekistan 🇺🇿.

[@HikmaHistory]

Rahmat!

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

"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)

[@JosephArimathea29]

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.

[@user-pc3ts8yc5b]

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

[@gabrielethier2046]

​@@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

[@shadowborn1456]

Chad ferdowsi still speaking facts after 1000 yrs

[@bettyhade1844]

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)

[@LukeBunyip]

Timur has a reputation, but I was not expecting screaming camels on fire. One can empathise with the elephants.

[@muhammaduzbek3658]

Ты бы лучше сочувствовал десяткам тысяч погибшим детям Палестины

[@deathbyglo9080]

@@muhammaduzbek3658sighs🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️, these comments not gonna make any change

[@BoltaBekOzbek]

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.

[@RajaRam_electrician]

Are you a Chagatai Turk.

[@dilkhozaimarwat3479]

Reestablished cultures and ancient cities buy butchering millions of innocents and destroying cities.

[@BoltaBekOzbek]

@@Unknown_Iranian_Soldier1 Ahaha Timur himself and his army and nation all were turkic. They were not German speaking nation as you think.

[@BoltaBekOzbek]

@@RajaRam_electrician Yes, we called Uzbeks today.

[@islombekochi]

@@Unknown_Iranian_Soldier1 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.

[@ruggedindividual708]

Timur is so underrated in history. Can’t believe he’s not spoken about more.

[@HikmaHistory]

Couldn’t agree more!

[@bosbanon3452]

He killed to many people so there's nothing left to tell his story ​@@HikmaHistory

[@joeshmoe8345]

Thanks a bunch for sharing this with us Big Dog!

[@No_name.0103]

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!

[@nicholaspearse2222]

Babe wake up, Hikma History made a new video.

[@HikmaHistory]

😂

[@Loy-AFG.]

😂

[@thescorpio8470]

It definitely be like that.. videos be loop mode 🔁

[@bigsarge2085]

Interesting and informative as always!

[@brookechang4942]

Fantastic video!

[@wannaknowwho25]

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

[@StoicHistorian]

can't wait to watch!

[@ajam282]

Excellent work! I admire your dedication.

[@explosivereactionstv7414]

He was one of the few historical figures who talked his stuff and backed it up big time while standing on business.

[@tawan20082008]

wow , I haven’t watched yet because I’m at work but tthis topic is very interesting for me as an Iranian ! please more lesser-known Iranian dynasties !

[@HikmaHistory]

I’d love to but I did one on the Zands that performed terribly!

[@AnatolianHittite]

Timur has nothing to do with you Iranians except that he committed massacres in Iran because he is a Turk.

[@billdehappy1]

@@AnatolianHittite tatar he of an mongolian turofied tribe...same thing you say but what do you know i question so here we go...mongol in term was by the yuan china 'secret history' used for up themself as the one linage legit...very few times can see any negative words even during warring state among them are existed....everyone said tatar they called themself tatar in threats sent to rulers...kham mongol be as based of an old xiongnu military allaince famouse known...liewise only of pure chinnigshed bloodline khan or rule even after khagante split and fell timur used puppets aswell...diffrence is mongolian are nomads of steppes he manged to united you had turks speak mongolian and vice verse that became the core and only could speak in mongolian everyone else are turkic learned...gur-khan son in law timur later became highest claimed titel of non chinngished...why he went by emir for muslim and kalif hulagu killed muhammed be related for claim aswell....

[@Jamshedac-gf4bh]

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

[@user-pc3ts8yc5b]

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]

The white house was actually built by an Irish guy who modeled after the leinster house in irelandm

[@user-pc3ts8yc5b]

@@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

[@unusualhistorian1336]

Keep it up Hikma, great video like always!

[@HikmaHistory]

Appreciate it!

[@islombekochi]

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.

[@milanvitu3963]

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?

[@islombekochi]

@@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.

[@user-pc3ts8yc5b]

"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

[@temurkhan9601]

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 ...

[@appleofeden9101]

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.

[@eliech7112]

Great video thank you 👏

[@ruggedindividual708]

Good content bro

[@manpreet1283]

Great image reel.. subd!

[@ferrjuan]

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!

[@mrmr446]

Persian gardens also influenced those made in Europe from the seventeenth century onwards.

[@LuCa8_]

bro made this at the perfect time for me lmao I was just getting back into learning abt Timur

[@friedonions]

Thanks for this. Can't really find any good documentaries on the Timurids.

[@HikmaHistory]

Glad you like it!

[@McVaySwifty]

Nice doc boss!!

[@HikmaHistory]

Thanks bro

[@mohammadahmadnaz9232]

Thank you very much ffor your excellent History of Timurid Documentary. From London, England. I was born in Delhi, India.

[@barahng]

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. 😮

[@user-pc3ts8yc5b]

Look at how Timur managed with this fear of war elephants in Delhi, and how ottomans were terrified and lost the battle.

[@dfui.]

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.

[@bakonajm1136]

Please do a video on the Ayyubid empire and great video btw

[@jasemalhammadi4228]

Thanks you. Perhaps the Ilkhanate, the Golden Horde and the Seljuks will be next.

[@HikmaHistory]

The first two I have no plans as of yet but the last one, yes I plan on it!

[@wasnt.here.3853]

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

[@HikmaHistory]

Great suggestion! Now I just gotta figure out how to do that

[@mikeforbes4735]

He was born 35 km far from my village . Kamashi region kashkadarya uzbekistan.

[@mohamednazirbasharat913]

Amazing❤

[@HikmaHistory]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mohamednazirbasharat913]

​@@HikmaHistory I truly enjoyed it . Your art is reaching out well to support great substance of your work🌹

[@abukharan5774]

❤ nice

[@hongyaohome]

@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

[@mohamedhaybe235]

Internal Conflicts is what brings any "mighty" Empire to Collapse. That is the Lesson History teaches us.

[@timurpodcast4379]

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!

[@HikmaHistory]

Good to hear from you dude, tried contacting you on Twitter a bunch!

[@timurpodcast4379]

@@HikmaHistory Oh shoot I'm sorry! I was off of twitter for several years.

[@HikmaHistory]

@@timurpodcast4379 No worries, when can the viewers expect new episodes of the podcast?

[@timurpodcast4379]

@@HikmaHistory Workin on my next episode now!

[@HikmaHistory]

@@timurpodcast4379 What's it on?

[@TorvusVae]

I've been watching you and Al-Muqadimma for a couple years now, I've definitely heard of the Timurids, lol

[@user-rf1qf7oo4d]

Al-muqadimmah is a hater when it comes to Timur. Just because he was a better conqueror than the other conquerors at the time.

[@user-rf1qf7oo4d]

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?

[@JosephArimathea29]

​@@user-rf1qf7oo4dI think it's more timurs hypocrisy in declaring himself the sword of Islam, when he himself was the biggest butcher of the Islamic people.

[@TorvusVae]

@@user-rf1qf7oo4d 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.

[@omaraboal-azm8705]

​@@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

[@nathanielmadera3702]

Somehow you don't mention the different religious beliefs at the time but it's the best👍👍👍

[@nicholaswhitman4620]

No one's talking about the Amir Prince/ A mere prince pun, but that was smooth.

[@HikmaHistory]

Haha one of my proudest moments!

[@ForgottenIslam]

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!

[@carlfalcao-clavel5310]

Timur was playing Mount and Blade IRL

[@kaloarepo288]

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.

[@poet.alhashimi]

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.

[@Shimra8888]

Could Timur have defeated the Ming?

[@benjamindo8142]

the ultimate question lol

[@Brandonhayhew]

He had the resources and capacity to field hundreds of thousands of soldiers

[@user-pc3ts8yc5b]

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.

[@Shimra8888]

@@user-pc3ts8yc5b 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.

[@Shimra8888]

@@Brandonhayhew the Ming could field millions. The dynasty was newly established.

[@orkun171]

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

[@beachboy0505]

35:39 Excellent video 📹 Watched it twice Again, the winter of Russia, defeated great dreams.

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

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

[@HikmaHistory]

very interested in his, his son Ibrahim and grandson Ismail's life story - so don't be surprised if you see such a video!

[@azizdelta2693]

You should mention that all Muslims scholars at the time deemed him a heretic.

[@FreedomForever2010]

I'm playing as them in EU4 right now as this came across recommendations :D

[@lyonard9226]

Do you plan to form the Mughals? Or maybe Persia? Or stay as the Timurids and play the horde path?

[@FreedomForever2010]

@@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.

[@HalalHistory]

You should make a full video on the Uzbek khanate; especially abu’l Khayr Khan and Muhammad Shaybani

[@aliaslanercom]

Hikma, please make a video about Selim the Resolute.

[@HikmaHistory]

Do you mean Selim I of the Ottoman Empire?

[@aliaslanercom]

@@HikmaHistory Yes.

[@poet.alhashimi]

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.

[@temurkhan9601]

+ 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 )

[@poet.alhashimi]

@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.

[@elespectador1887]

@@poet.alhashimi Sultan Mahmood Ghaznavi. The first Turkic Sultan ever

[@N0-PvP-Plz]

Could you do a video on the jat people and their history 😊

[@LuisAldamiz]

Never a boring day in the Timurid Empire, right?

[@ZS-rw4qq]

8:50 are any of these still standing?

[@Scotty-P]

I do know about it!

[@tjk010]

Only if the Timurids and Ottomans became allies and fought against others maybe both would still exist 😭😭😭

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

You talk like Europeans wouldn't get powerful. Times change. You're still nostalgic about old age empires

[@ChinaPlaNaxalitiesKhalistan]

@@ShubhamMishrabro bruh learning BATTLE OF NİCOPOLİS 1396 AND THAT TİMURİD OTTOMAN ALLİANCE CONQUERED WHOLE EUROPE and europeans NOT POWERFULL SİNCE WW2

[@Notreallyhereanymore]

I dont think Europe could handle Ottoman Timurid alliance​@@ShubhamMishrabro

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

@@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

[@HMMMM._-.]

@@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.

[@sendyseptian8773]

I think the reason why Timur is not so well known despite ruffling Eurasia's feathers is because of the few good things he did. Conquerors like Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, even Genghis at least made good on the things they brought. So, people praise them a lot. On the other hand, Timur is like the Joker who "wants to see the world burn".

[@timothygalli9601]

Thank you . I really liked the history lesson. I'm a student of history. I've read about Roman Empire, Alexander the Great, the Mongols, ottoman Turks, Tamerlane, Vlad Dracula, Crusades, British Empire, WW2, and modern history. There is no doubt he's one of the greatest conquers like ghenghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Julius Ceaser. I like channel👍

[@ProxyGL]

I wonder when their patent on horse-archers will expire? Seems pretty OP.

[@HikmaHistory]

I like to call it the nuclear bomb of the medieval period

[@JimySlow-wq9bw]

Amazing empire great turco mongolian dynasties too terima kasih-thx for made n share this video documentary

[@DubyaDeeEight]

Guy just shows up and ruins your Medieval 2 Total War campaign and then leaves without explaining himself. What a chad

[@krakatoa_8180]

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

[@user-pc3ts8yc5b]

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

[@54032Zepol]

Swag 😎

[@mueezadam8438]

4:17 no matter how wrong you may be, remember that you are at least better than the guy that thought Timur would make a great puppet

[@MrAMandTM]

10:50 What a preposterous thing to say out loud.

[@HikmaHistory]

Timur operated on different rules!

[@ironmiketyson220]

Hikma history for life!

[@salmanbashar1996]

I want to request you if you want to know the true life story of Emir Timur then please read the book of Turkish Professor Ahmet Simsirgil's 'Emir Timur'. I am also request you to review the book in your channel.

[@marcomongke3116]

Inspiration for tbe Daedric Prince of destruction?

[@MKn-hw1pc]

In the thumbnail for this video, who are the people in the image?

[@HikmaHistory]

Timur and a couple of his great-grandsons (or great great grandsons)

[@colinbarnard6512]

The Tamerids lasted longer than Alexander's did. Yet, Funky Alex is the much better known tale. Eurocentrism rocks!

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Because Alexander reached unknown lands while being undefeated during ancient times. Not easy seeing the circumstances

[@adammiller3609]

Mostly a function of timing more than anything. Alexander established an empire of completely unknown proportions some 1500 years before Timur.

[@odyssey2548]

Alexander's line died out but the Diadochi states lasted longer than the Timurids. Ptolemic, Selucid, Antigonid and the Epiriteswere around for centuries

[@wtice4632]

Aw are you crying?

[@LimeyRedneck]

🤠💜

[@auradzrts691]

Mount and Blade

[@dfui.]

Timothy Timur was a menace.

[@chrisantoniadis3566]

@7:48 i see what you did there xD

[@CARL_093]

thanks hikma history

[@beachboy0505]

Contrast the Timuruds to the Ottomans. The Ottomans must have believed in a kind of 'manifest destiny '. Whatever happened, there could only be one unified Ottoman Empire, one sultan, one capital. This may be good but also many nations today owe their origins and culture to the Timurids. Mostly the new nations that came after breaking of the Soviet Union.

[@user-pc3ts8yc5b]

Even Ottomans were in cultural debt in front of Timurids. Mehmed II kept luring many Timurid scholars, architects and poets, because Timurid civilization was considered as the pinnacle of art, culture, architecture and science. Mehmed was even buried in Timurid style in a mausoleum built by Central Asian architectures.

[@barahng]

Steppe empires remind me of the Imperium of Man. "Oh you didn't surrender or you revolted? Everyone dies now". 😂

[@londonbudgetgardner5205]

7:45 …..no Amir (mere) Prince No pun intended

[@anthonyvaleriuskevin8982]

13:14 Okay that's nice. 13:17 Wait, again?

[@beepboop204]

🙂

[@emiliospowerballer1441]

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.

[@abdullahozek8016]

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

[@Timurenjoyer1336]

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

[@hititmanify]

timur leng mvp

[@feartheamish9183]

Funny, didn't you mention the timurids descendants the Mughals were native to India in your previous video?

[@HikmaHistory]

I hope not, you got a link/timestamp?

[@OwaisChaudhary-nl6xj]

THAT THE TANOLI TRIBE LIVING IN HAZARA DIVISION AND KPK PROVINCE OF PAKISTAN COUNTRY IN SOUTH ASIA 🌏 IS BARLAS MONGOL TRIBE AND PUSHTUNIZED TODAY! IS THIS CORRECT

[@HikmaHistory]

No idea. But it sounds fascinating, where you’d hear that?

[@ozgursivrikaya3570]

16 büyük türk devletinde biridir tarihi biz yazarız siz doğru okuyun

[@pradeepmagan6951]

Subatai was probably is equal

[@Irandoostparsa]

Really good video, but just want to note that when you say he conquered Persia, you don’t have to also say Azarbajan, Azarbajan is a part of Persia.

[@islombekochi]

It's documented in Temurid era documentaries the region named Azarbayjon was existed. There's also other different Persian named Mothandara and Fors viloyati literally means Persia existed. I suggest just calm down. You see you can't say our historical architecture is Persian so it's created in Timurid era. Many historians believe it's Turkic rennessans.

[@mohammadahmadnaz9232]

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.

[@inquisitive4]

Timur has janissery vibes

[@user-pc3ts8yc5b]

Ever since Anatolian holidays of Timurid army in 1402, Janissaries were continuously shaking and trembling whenever Timurid army was passing by and around Anatolia😂🤣

[@shzarmai]

please create a video about Nader Shah....

[@HikmaHistory]

Already done, go on my channel

[@PrviOPG-Catalhoyuka]

Never heard of Timurids??? Where are you live...probably US school sistem never heard of 😂😂

[@user-wr4yl7tx3w]

The fact that he is glorified today in Uzbekistan goes to show that cries of colonialism is just bs. It is always tribalism.

[@Alejandro-te2nt]

Moreso it is the need to create a national origin mythos for the nationalist awakening post USSR.