timur the lame

Timur, or Tamerlane, was a highly important character in European, Asian, and Old World history, establishing a new empire that greatly influenced the area, being the last truly great steppe empire, although future ones would exist, they got increasingly outgunned by sedentary opponents, though...

Good evening. As it says on the title what would the Middle East look like if the sacking of Constantinople in 1204 is avoided? For starters either the crusaders avoid Constantinople, and also avoid sacking Zara or at least stay on good terms with the Pope somehow. Regardless the don't get...

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?