Paragraf Test-17 Soru=28

We learn from the passage that Timur ....... .

Timur Lenk means Timur, the lame . But the handicap in his leg did not stop Timur from
becoming one of the fiercest and most successful of the conquerors to come out of Central Asia.
For almost four decades — from the 1360s until his death — he and his nomad warriors
conquered every territory from Mongolia in the east to the Mediterranean lands in the west.
When the city of Isfahan defied him, he slaughtered 70,000 of its inhabitants and built a pyramid
of heads. The desolation caused by his campaigns gave rise to many legends, and even people
who lived far beyond his conquests trembled at his name. His exploits inspired such works as
Christopher Marlowe's play 'Tamburlaine the Great , published in 1590.