Interesting piece: Will Turkey be America's new point man in the middle east?

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[–]TheJamesRocket 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Tamerlane was one of the great conquerors of history, ranking right up there with Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great. He was a nomadic Asian warlord who carved out a vast empire over the course of his military career. Tamerlane got into a dispute with Bayezid, the Ottoman sultan. This eventually lead to them going to war. The Timurids annihilated the Ottomans at the battle of Ankara, and they spread across Anatolia killing Turks for fun. Tamerlane built a pyramid out of their skulls, and put Bayezid in a cage until he died.

I have always wondered what might have happened, if the Bulgarians and Serbs had revolted against the Ottomans at this time. They would have been very hard pressed to keep in control of the situation. It was a missed opportunity, in my opinion.

[–]casparvoneverecBig tiddy respecter[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Tamerlane was one of the great conquerors of history

This guy was a next level savage. During the battle of Delhi he was faced with huge Indian war elephants. He then packed dozens of camels with firewood and set them on fire. The helpless creates ran forward in agony, screaming. The elephants panicked seeing this and rampaged through the Indian lines, shattering them.

He took Delhi and immediately beheaded 50,000 men. Few men in history were this brutal. If there was justice in this world, a modern equivalent of Tamerlane would've set loose on Israel

[–]asterias 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have always wondered what might have happened, if the Bulgarians and Serbs had revolted against the Ottomans at this time. They would have been very hard pressed to keep in control of the situation. It was a missed opportunity, in my opinion

The reason was that they feared of what would happen next. You may want to look into the Batak massacre, which is an example of how the Turks kept them under their rule.