• I was born in Kesh, near Samarkand, in 1336.
  • I declared myself Mongol Khan in 1370 and raised a large army of nomadic Turks and Mongols.
  • In a series of brutal conflicts, I conquered nearly all Persia, Georgia, and the Tatar Empire and subdued all the states between the River Indus and lower Ganges.
  • I conquered Damascus and Syria from the Mamluk sovereigns of Egypt, then defeated the Turks at Ankara (1402), taking the Sultan as prisoner.
  • I died while marching to conquer China in 1405. I was the last major nomadic conqueror of the Eurasian Steppe.

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