A couple of hundred years earlier, around 1400, the real Tamerlane had become the ruler of all the Mongol lands except China. In these words Christopher Marlowe fixed forever the European image of Tamburlaine, still a legendary force in Elizabethan England. Threatening the world with high astounding terms,Īnd scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword." Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine we'll lead you to the stately tent of war, In this week's programmes, we've been looking at the great empires that dominated the world five to six hundred years ago - Ottoman Turkey, Ming China and the Inca in South America. "I think that cup, the idea of which comes from China but which was made in central Asia and which has landed up in the west, really does symbolise a good deal about where the Timurids stand in the history of the Middle East and of the world." (Beatrice Forbes Manz) I have it with me now, it's the subject of this programme.
He had a cup made of jade, with his name incised on it. Ulugh Beg, the astronomer prince, was Tamerlane's grandson. The Timurid Empire had been founded by the redoubtable Tamerlane in the years around 1400. He was also briefly the ruler of one of the world's great powers - the Timurid Empire - that at its height ruled not only central Asia, but Iran and Afghanistan, as well as parts of Iraq, Pakistan, and India. Ulugh Beg built a great observatory in Samarkand, in modern Uzbekistan, and compiled a famous catalogue of just under a thousand stars.
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