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Ibn Khaldun Asked Timur for a Million Lives and Left With a Mule
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Ibn Khaldun Asked Timur for a Million Lives and Left With a Mule

Ibn Khaldun walked into Timur's camp to negotiate for the lives of a million people. He walked out with a mule and a letter of safe passage.

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