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Also known as Lord Timur the Splendid, he was the conqueror that put Samarkand on the map and put and end to the Golden Horde. His empire was huge, his buildings and projects were towering monuments to an almost barbaric glory, and the man himself was utterly ruthless. Those towers of skulls? He made them. That's not hyperbole, either: he made actual towers out of actual skulls. These days, he's most famous for being the ancestor of Babur, and by extension of the Moghuls of India. Also, an avid chess player.

One part genius, one part visionary, one part psycho: the special recipe that makes for a the founder of a semi-nomadic empire, the last of the great conquerors of the Genghis Khan stripe.

Description
Also known as Lord Timur the Splendid, he was the conqueror that put Samarkand on the map and put and end to the Golden Horde. His empire was huge, his buildings and projects were towering monuments to an almost barbaric glory, and the man himself was utterly ruthless. Those towers of skulls? He made them. That's not hyperbole, either: he made actual towers out of actual skulls. These days, he's most famous for being the ancestor of Babur, and by extension of the Moghuls of India. Also, an avid chess player.

One part genius, one part visionary, one part psycho: the special recipe that makes for a the founder of a semi-nomadic empire, the last of the great conquerors of the Genghis Khan stripe.