. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. the Latin alphabet instead one they would replace. Under this ascend-of the strange Russian letters, and its mon- ancy Egypt remained an independent powerarch never assumed an absolute independence until 1517, when it fell to the Ottoman Turks,of the Emperor. Poland was in fact in its The first destructive vigour of Hulagusorigins an outlying part of Christendom and Mongols soon subsided, but in the fifteenthof the Holy Empire ; Russia never was any- century a last tornado of nomadism arose inthing of the sort. Western Turke
. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. the Latin alphabet instead one they would replace. Under this ascend-of the strange Russian letters, and its mon- ancy Egypt remained an independent powerarch never assumed an absolute independence until 1517, when it fell to the Ottoman Turks,of the Emperor. Poland was in fact in its The first destructive vigour of Hulagusorigins an outlying part of Christendom and Mongols soon subsided, but in the fifteenthof the Holy Empire ; Russia never was any- century a last tornado of nomadism arose inthing of the sort. Western Turkestan under the leadership of a certain Timur the Lame, or Timurlane. He o K was descended in the female line from Jengis Khan. He established himself in Samar- The nature and development of the empire kand, and spread his authority over Kipchak of the Ilkhans in Persia, Mesopotamia, and (Turkestan to South Russia), Siberia, and Syria is perhaps the most interesting of all southward as far as the Indus. He assumed 382 THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY ^Rc :EMHRE oP TIMURLATsI^. ^^l^^ the title of Great Khan in 1369. He was anomad of the savage school, and he createdan empire of desolation from North India toSyria. Pyramids of skulls were his particulararchitectural fancy ; after the storming ofIspahan he made one of 70,000. His ambi-tion was to restore the empire of Jengis Khanas he conceived it, a project in which hecompletely failed. He spread destruction farand wide ; the Ottoman Turks—it was beforethe taking of Constantinople and their days ofgreatness—and Egypt paid him tribute ; thePunjab he devastated ; and Delhi surrenderedto him. After Delhi had surrendered, how-ever, he made a frightful massacre of itsinhabitants. At the time of his death (1405)very little remained to witness to his powerbut a name of horror, ruins and desolatedcountries, and a shrunken and impoverisheddomain in Persia. The dynasty founded by Timur in Persiawas extinguished by another Turkoman hordefifty year
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