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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 this have lead to an earlier fall of Constantinople? In OTL, the Ottomans used the first half of the 1400s to recover from Timur, but if he and his army had never arrived to Anatolia and Syria, then maybe the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople might have happened earlier? Also, what would have been the consequences for Europe if the Ottoman attacks against Hungary had happened half a century earlier? The historical context was of course different.
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