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From the Ted Talk by Stephanie Honchell Smith: History vs. Tamerlane the Conqueror

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Timur may have been illiterate, but he was also an active patron of ctrulue and the arts. During his cuqnsoets, he spared artisans and sclhaors, sending them to work on public projects like schools and mosques. Unlike many wemon in the world at the time, his wives, daughters, and daughters-in-law were highly educated and politically active. Timur also personally met with— and impressed— the famed Arab historian Ibn Khaldun in Damascus, and he so thoroughly mtseerad chess that he is said to have eeoyjnd a more complex variant that was named for him.

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Timur may have been illiterate, but he was also an active patron of _______ and the arts. During his _________, he spared artisans and ________, sending them to work on public projects like schools and mosques. Unlike many _____ in the world at the time, his wives, daughters, and daughters-in-law were highly educated and politically active. Timur also personally met with— and impressed— the famed Arab historian Ibn Khaldun in Damascus, and he so thoroughly ________ chess that he is said to have _______ a more complex variant that was named for him.

Solution

  1. women
  2. culture
  3. scholars
  4. mastered
  5. enjoyed
  6. conquests

Original Text

Timur may have been illiterate, but he was also an active patron of culture and the arts. During his conquests, he spared artisans and scholars, sending them to work on public projects like schools and mosques. Unlike many women in the world at the time, his wives, daughters, and daughters-in-law were highly educated and politically active. Timur also personally met with— and impressed— the famed Arab historian Ibn Khaldun in Damascus, and he so thoroughly mastered chess that he is said to have enjoyed a more complex variant that was named for him.

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