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Tamerlane's Captive Cartographers and the Samarkand Map Room
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the forgotten story of Tamerlane's captive cartographers—the geographers, astronomers, and surveyors he gathered in Samarkand to map his empire. We meet Jamal al-Din, the Persian astronomer who produced the first detailed map of Central Asia from captured Chinese, Persian, and Arab sources. We discuss how Tamerlane used these maps to plan his campaigns, from the Anatolian plateau to the Indus valley, and how his captured mapmakers built a 'map room' in the Registan square, where charts were updated with each new conquest. Lucas explains…
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