while the latter returned to Samarkand to rest and hold a kurultai (council) to select a new puppet ruler (the previous one had died) and prepare the invasion of Mongolia and China. In China, the Ming ...

Samarkand, Tamerlane's capital ... they declared themselves the heirs to the universal sovereignty of Genghis Khan's Mongol Empire. Like all new dynasties the Timurid's wanted to appropriate ...

Samarkand, Tamerlane's capital ... they declared themselves the heirs to the universal sovereignty of Genghis Khan's Mongol Empire. Like all new dynasties the Timurid's wanted to appropriate ...