Tamerlane
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Tamerlane is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 04, 2022 and August 19, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “1400, Tamerlane, killed another 5%”; “I lost momentum somewhere around Tamerlane and the Black Death”. It most often appears alongside Buddhism, China, 1000.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: May 04, 2022
- Last seen: August 19, 2022
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Related Pages
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- Buddhism (2 shared issues)
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- 1000 (1 shared issues)
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- 1200 (1 shared issues)
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- 1400 (1 shared issues)
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- 1587 (1 shared issues)
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- 1587 (1 shared issues)
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- 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline (1 shared issues)
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- 1650 (1 shared issues)
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- 400 AD (1 shared issues)
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- 700 (1 shared issues)
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- A Universal History of Infamy (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
“Oh yeah. You look at history, and once every two hundred, three hundred years they get their act together, form a big confederation, and invade either China, the West, or both. It’s like clockwork. 400 AD, you get the Huns. 700, the Magyars. 1000, the first Turks start moving west. 1200, Genghis Khan, killed 10% of the world population. 1400, Tamerlane, killed another 5%. 1650, the Ming-Qing transition in China, also killed 5%. We’re more than 50 years overdue at this point.”
A little backstory: in my younger days, I thought it might be fun and useful to learn the entire history of the world. To that end, I started with accounts of archaeology and prehistory, then the ancient civilizations, classical antiquity, and so on until I lost momentum somewhere around Tamerlane and the Black Death.