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Tamerlane's Tax System How He Funded an Empire
How did Tamerlane pay for his massive armies, lavish building projects, and decades of constant war? This episode examines the surprisingly sophisticated financial machinery behind the Timurid Empire. Lucas and Luna explore the tax reforms Tamerlane implemented after conquering Persia and Central Asia, including the tamgha (trade tax), the land tax (kharaj), and the poll tax (jizya). They discuss how he balanced the books between settled agricultural regions and nomadic steppe traditions, why he remitted taxes after disasters, and how his taxation policies influenced later Mughal and Safavid…
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