A History of Agriculture in India v2.c63.s1.9
A History of Agriculture in India v2.c63.s1.9
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Timur destroyed the cities of Islamic Iran and Turkey and Hindu India with equal impartiality. He slaughtered lakhs of men, burnt many cities, and laid waste one-half of the then civilized world. There was a strange blend of cruelty and artistic sensibility in this man; while he enjoyed raising pyramids of skulls at Isfahan and Dehli, he also created gardens of great beauty at Samarkand, where he died in A.D. 1405 in the midst of his Chinese campaign.