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Timur's Plague Towers: The Siege of Damascus Explained
In 1400, Timur’s armies reached the gates of Damascus, a city that had survived Genghis Khan decades earlier. This episode explores the terrifying psychological warfare Timur employed during this siege, specifically his use of captured prisoners as human shields and the subsequent mass enslavement of the population. We examine the primary accounts from chroniclers like Ibn Arabshah and Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi, detailing how the city’s defenses crumbled not just under siege engines, but under the weight of fear. Lucas and Luna discuss the strategic logic behind such brutality, the role of…
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