What if Timur the Lames armies had managed to destabilize the Ottomans to the point of defeat?
What if Timur the Lames armies had managed to destabilize the Ottomans to the point of defeat?
As opposed to...?
Are you saying that the Ottomans don't recover from what he did to them?
Exactly. An earlier fall of the Ottomans and its effect on the world.