WI: Timur killed, not just disabled

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?
 
The Golden Horde does not collapse until later, this delays the rise of muscowy.
Delhi is not sacked, what happens in India is anyone's guess.

More Importantly, Butterflying conflict between the Ottomans and Timur, leads to Bayezid taking Constantinople in 1403.
The Ottomans have a 50 year head start in their conquest of europe.
 
Ramifications of no Timur:

And the Italian states are much weaker. Venice is still recovering from choggia and the plague. Milan is about to collapse. Thr Church is still in schism. Sicily and Aragon are about to undergo a succession crisis. The Hundred Years war is only halfway through. The Hussite Wars are about to distract Hungary-Bohemia and Poland and Germany. If the Ottomans play their cards right and exploit Europes internal divisions they could be at the Alps by the 1440s.

Well, aside from just the western expansion, the Ottomans might have less trouble coming from the east in the long term. Without Timur, the Persian region's remains disunited in the wake of Ilkhanate collapse for at least a good while longer (plus, no Turkomen to revolt from). Without an Iranian power like the Safavids to check Ottoman eastward expansion and the constant expenditures of the Ottoman-Safavid wars, Ottoman dominance over the Middle East is far more secure and its borders perhaps stretching over the Zagros, no?
 
Without Timur, the Kingdom of Georgia under Bagrat V 'the Great' might continue as a significant (Christian) power in the Middle East. Or at least a unified one, since the former Kingdom of Imereti had been reduced to a dukedom.
 
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