Great Leaders Who Changed the Medieval World

His pyramid of 20,000 beheaded human skulls stood outside Aleppo. Erected as message to those who dared oppose his rule. In Damascus, he herded thousands into the Mosque and set it on fire. He ordered 70,000 executions in Tikrit and 90,000 in Baghdad. He was Tamerlane, ferocious all-conquering despot of western and central Asia and founder of the Timurid Empire. Read the account of Tamerlane's horrific reign of terror in Asia along with the words and deeds of many other supreme leaders and individuals who changed the course of the medieval world forever.


Leaders include Muhammad, Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, Genghis Khan, Robert the Bruce, Tamerlane, Joan of Arc, Isabella I, Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Drake, Mary Queen of Scots