r/MongolHistoryMemes

Context: Timur was a very strange and cruel ruler who killed a bunch of civilians and called himself a muslim, but killed almost every denomination of muslim because they were in his mind non believers.

If the Mongol Empire had fully incorporated the Oghuz Turks into its structure, it is quite likely that the Turkish presence in Anatolia would still have continued, but the process of expansion into the Balkans might not have unfolded in the same way as it did under the Ottomans. The Oghuz Turkmens already lived with relatively loose social bonds, tending to follow their own beys rather than central khans, and they were sometimes prone to resisting different political authorities. Due to their semi-nomadic lifestyle, they were often settled in frontier regions, both to keep them under control and to use them as buffer forces against external threats.