tamerlane

Your challenge is to have Bayezid I get the better of Timur, rather than the other way around.

While it's not clear exactly how Timur received the injuries that earned him the epithet "the Lame", what is clear is that the circumstances under which he received them could easily have killed him. Suppose they did kill him. How might things have changed?

As the title says, an Imperial China ruled by the Timurids. What happens if Tamerlane or one of his successors conquered China and ruled the Middle Kingdom, similar to Mongol Yuan and Manchu Qing? How China would looked like under Timurid rule? Would it be like the Chinese version of Mughal Empire?

I'd like to ask, How different would the history of the Ottoman Empire play out had Timur never been born? Having captured Constantinople fifty years earlier than OTL, where would they expand to next?

What if Timur, sometimes referred to as The Lame, who conquered vast regions of Central Asia and Persia and even laid waste to the ottoman turks, had never been born or was killed in one of his earliest campaigns? What are the effects on... Ottoman Turkey, Anatolia, and the Byzantine Empire? The...

In 1398 Timur was fighting wars in India, before he turned westwards, fighting among others the Ottomans. In 1402 he won the battle of Ankara, which weakened the Ottomans, although Timurs death three years later lead to the demise of his empire. But what if he had died in the Indian wars? Would...

With no PoDs prior to the death of Timur the Great (aka Tamerlane) in 1405, how much worse could things have gotten for the young Ottoman Empire? What I'm looking for here is for no Islamic or Middle Eastern power to be a viable threat to Constantinople and Eastern Europe, at least in the 15th...