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Tamerlane's Diplomatic Web: The Letters That Shook Kings
When Tamerlane wasn't on the battlefield, he was writing letters. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the conqueror's extraordinary diplomatic correspondence — the threats, the flattery, the theological justifications — that he sent to rivals and monarchs from Paris to Beijing. We examine his famous 1402 letter to King Charles VI of France, proposing a joint trade alliance against the Ottomans; his scathing exchanges with the Mamluk sultan Barquq; and the carefully crafted letters to the Ming emperor Yongle, mixing deference with thinly veiled menace. Drawing on the Zafarnama…
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