Lame Timur was born in 1336 in the Chagatai Khanate, where his ancestors were once Chagatai ministers, and Timur later usurped the supreme power of the Chagatai Khanate and established the Timurid Empire. Timur claimed to be a descendant of Genghis Khan and was to inherit Genghis Khan's great cause. In order to improve his position, Timur married a princess of the Mongolian golden family, so he was also called Tamerlane the horse.
The crippled Timur did inherit the great military talents of Genghis Khan, conquered the east and the west, and never tasted defeat in his life. The Timurid Empire easily defeated the Golden Horde to the west and burned the golden Horde capital, Salai. The Egyptian Mamluk cavalry, which had wiped out the Mongol Western Expeditionary Army, was also easily defeated twice by Timur. The Ottoman sultans who fought in Europe, the Ottoman army of Bayezid I, known as lightning, were also beaten by Timur, and even Bayezid I himself was captured by Timur and put in an iron cage to parade the streets. In his later years, Timur also led an expedition of 800,000 troops to the Ming Dynasty to fight with Zhu Di, the ancestor of Ming Chengzu, but unfortunately he fell ill and died just after arriving in Xinjiang, and the confrontation between the two major empires of the East and the West came to an abrupt end.
Timurid Empire
Timur claims to be a descendant of Genghis Khan, so is Timur really a descendant of Genghis Khan or a Mongol? Many people think that Timur was a Turkic Mongol or simply a Turk, pretending to be a Mongol.
Tamerlane
Judging from the portrait left by Timur, Timur is angular and indeed not a Mongol image, closer to the Turks.
The real unveiling of Timur's identity depends on modern scientific means. Tamerlane's mausoleum in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, was once opened by the Soviets. A few years ago, scientists used genetic testing technology to detect Timur's genes, according to the test, Timur paternal DNA test (Y haploid population test), Timur gene belongs to the Turkic J2-M172, not the Mongolian C2, O2. Moreover, Tamerlane basically has no Mongol genes, indicating that Timur is a Turkic person who is like a fake bag. He pretended to be a descendant of Genghis Khan and should have put gold on his face and inflated his value.
However, Timur's sixth grandson, Babur, who later established the Mughal Empire in India, has the blood of Genghis Khan, of course, this comes from babul's matrilineal blood, and his mother is a descendant of Genghis Khan, so Babur still has Mongol characteristics on his face.
Babur