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What was it that had awakened her what in awakening had changed the inpouring human consciousness into this flood of fury? Foreboding gripped me. "Norhala!" My voice was shaking. "Those we left " "They are gone!" The golden voice was octaves deeper, vibrant, throbbing with that muffled, menacing note that must have pulsed from the golden tambours that summoned to battle Timur's fierce hordes.
In less than twenty years they stood again in Asia as they were before Timur's attack, and secure for the time on the east, could return to restore their prestige in the west, where the Tartar victory had bred unrest and brought both the Hungarians and the Venetians on the Balkan scene.
It was a period of transition from the era of mere ruthless conquest, which Timur's tempestuous irruption brought practically to a close, to the era of constructive statesmanship, which it was reserved to Akbar, the greatest of the Moghul Emperors, to inaugurate.
Gibbon introduces him in the Decline and Fall, apparently because fascinated with the subject, although he gives as a historical reason the fact that Timur's triumph in Asia delayed the final fall of Constantinople taken by the Turks in 1453. In early youth the future ruler of so vast an empire was engaged in struggles for ascendency with the petty chiefs of rival tribes.
In the year 1494, at the age of twelve, he became king of Farghana, a small kingdom of Central Asia, now known as Kokand. His sovereignty, however, was of a very precarious tenure, for he was surrounded on all sides by a horde of rapacious, intriguing relatives, scrambling for the fragments of Timur's empire.
Greatness of Timur's Descendants Causes of the Empire's Decline Character of Aurangzeb Progress of Disruption under his Successors Muhamadan and Hindu enemies The Stage emptied. For nearly two centuries the throne of the Chaghtais continued to be filled by a succession of exceptionally able Princes.
Timur's empire, being founded on no real unity, dissolved with his death, and the various subject nations reasserted their independence. Yet Europe was granted a considerable breathing space before the Turks once more felt able to push their aggressions westward. Toward the close of this unlucky fourteenth century a marked religious revival extended over Europe.
Without expatiating on the victories of thirty-five campaigns, without describing the lines of march which he repeatedly traced over the continent of Asia, I shall briefly represent Timur's conquests in Persia, Tartary, and India, and from thence proceed to the more interesting narrative of his Ottoman war.
It was believed in the family and empire of Timur that he himself composed the Commentaries of his life and the Institutions of his government, which, however, were probably the work of his secretaries. These manuscripts have been of great service to historians in their study of Timur's career.
Building of the jetty. The horsemen in the water. Timur's boats. The fire-proof awnings. The fire-boats and the bridge. The bridge burned. Pursuit. Battle in the river. The boats aground. Timur's adventures. He finally escapes. The governor's family. Kojend surrendered.
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