8. Timur the Lame (Tamerlane)
Timur, also known as Tamerlane, was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in the 14th century. Despite a limp from a leg injury, he led successful campaigns across Central Asia, the Middle East, and India. Notoriously, he constructed pyramids of skulls from his defeated enemies, such as in Baghdad, where he had 90,000 inhabitants beheaded to build towers with their skulls. His reign left a legacy of both architectural grandeur and brutal conquest (britannica.com).
