Mongols had already disappeared from History, but now in Otlukbeli 1473, nomadic cavalry domination finally disappeared from the world forever, destroyed by the middle-sized, growing Ottoman Empire. The massive Turkic/Mongol-style cav archer had utterly dominated the world for 300 years but was MASSACRED by the Ottoman cannons and Ottoman Janissaries with matchlock muskets (the world’s first modern army that is the base of all Age of Empires 3 armies) in Otlukbeli 1473. But he didn’t know of the Ottoman musket. Uzun Hasan, another Turkic warlord who took over all Timurid armies, gathered a massive army to invade the Ottoman lands. OTLUKBELI 1473 was one of the largest and most consequential battles in all history, of all times. It was only the Ottoman invention of the matchlock musket in 1465 in Edirne, Turkey that totally changed the world forever. Nomad cav still absolutely ruled the battlefields. It is essential to remember that, while Timur destroyed the last Mongol states in History, he was also a nomadic cav-based commander. The Turkish empires as a whole, to which Timur is also closely connected, especially the Ottoman superpower which was a world power until World War I, are infinitely more important in so many ways than Timur & Mongol. Timur is a fascinating personality but the Timurid empire was extremely short-lived as the Mongol Empire. That’s why Russia is finally able to exist as an independent nation at the end of AoE 4 time.
This Turkic absolute genius of warfare (but also genocidal in Mongol style) destroyed Toqtamish, the last great Mongol commander in the world (of Tatar Golden Horde which enslaved Russia). He was Turk not a Mongol, that’s why he had to famously marry a Mongol wife to earn legitimacy to command Mongol armies together with his elite Turkic armies.
Timur, the only nomadic commander to surpass Genghis Khan as a tactitian, was from Barlas tribe, mostly Turkic tribe. No bad…But Timur seems to be a Mongolian?
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