Late Middle Ages · Central Asia · War
1379
Timur besieges and takes Urgench
1379
After a punishing siege, Timur razed the great Khwarezmian trading city and deported its artisans to Samarkand to beautify his own capital. The deliberate destruction of irrigation systems turned fertile oasis into wasteland. Timur's method was emerging clearly: terror as policy, artisan deportation as cultural theft, and scorched earth as strategic doctrine.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.