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Description: Nowadays, most people haven’t heard of Timur, also known as Timurlane. He would hate this fact, as he spent his entire life trying to live up to the man he considered his ancestor, Genghis Khan. He tried to outdo Genghis Khan in a number of ways, but the most shocking from a modern standpoint was how he found horrifying ways to punish people. In fact, by the time Timur died, his actions had been responsible for killing over 17 million people, or 5% of the world’s population at the time. For comparison, to kill 5% of the world’s population today, you’d have to kill 400 million people. Most of his victims were killed by bloodthirsty wars. But those who betrayed him suffered far, far worse deaths. In fact, his methods of execution make modern-day killers seem like teddy bears. But to understand how and why Timur became such an evil ruler, you need to understand his origins. Today archaeologists show us how much of an evil ruler Timur really was.. DON'T CLICK THIS LINK: bit.ly/3qt8jGx ✅ For more amazing discoveries as well as recent discoveries, subscribe! Subscribe 👉 youtube.com/CrunchScience #evilruler #archaeology #Timur