Born Then1398–1399
Life during the Timur's sack of Delhi
Be born in a place it hit, a few years before it began, and see what it did to five ordinary lives.
What it meant for ordinary people
In December 1398 Timur defeated the Tughlaq sultan outside Delhi and sacked the city for several days. Many inhabitants were killed or enslaved, and skilled workers were taken back to Central Asia. The Delhi Sultanate never fully recovered.
Deaths: about 100,000 prisoners killed before the battle, and many more in the sack; numbers come from hostile chronicles.
How hard it hits each person in the game (risk of death, of being conscripted, of leaving) comes from scholarly estimates.
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