Timur - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

This leader loaded wood and hay on the backs of camels and lit the stack on fire to scare away enemy war elephants prior to his 1398 sack of Delhi. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this Central Asian leader who conquered the Golden Horde and founded a namesake empire centered at Samarkand.

ANSWER: Timur [or Tamerlane; or Timur the Lame; accept Timurid Empire]

[10h] Swivel guns placed on camels, known as zamburak, played an important role in cutting down infantry at this battle. The Koh-i-Noor diamond was plundered in a sack of Delhi following this victory for Nader Shah.

ANSWER: Battle of Karnal

[10m] Zamburak artillery units were used by Ahmad Shah Durrani during a battle at this location. The Delhi Sultanate collapsed after Ibrahim Lodi died in an earlier battle at this location.

ANSWER: Panipat [accept First Battle of Panipat; accept Third Battle of Panipat]

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Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
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UK	2025-02-01	Y	8	12.50	88%	38%	0%
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Florida A	UCF B	10	0	10	20
Carnegie Mellon A	Case Western B	10	0	0	10
Case Western A	Michigan B	10	0	10	20
Michigan A	Carnegie Mellon B	10	0	10	20
Ohio State B	Ohio State A	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty B	10	0	10	20
UNC B	UNC D	10	0	10	20
William & Mary	Virginia A	10	0	10	20
UNC C	South Carolina	10	0	10	20
Chicago D	Chicago B	10	0	0	10
Chicago C	Chicago A	10	0	10	20
Illinois B	Missoui S&T	10	0	10	20
Indiana A	Illinois C	10	0	10	20
Missouri	Illinois A	10	0	10	20
WashU B	WashU A	10	0	10	20
Iowa State	Wisconsin B	10	0	10	20
Wisconsin A	Minnesota B	10	0	10	20
Winona State	Carleton	10	0	0	10
Brown A	Brandeis A	10	0	0	10
MIT A	Harvard A	10	0	10	20
Harvard B	UMass Boston	10	0	10	20
Georgetown B	Notre Dame A	10	0	0	10
Northwestern B	Iowa	10	0	10	20
Stanford B	Notre Dame C	10	0	10	20
Purdue	Northwestern A	10	0	0	10
Alberta	UW B	10	0	10	20
UBC	UW A	10	10	0	20
Texas A	ASU	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Alabama A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Louisville A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Vanderbilt A	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	Southampton B	10	0	10	20
Cambridge B	Imperial B	10	0	0	10
Warwick B	LSE	10	0	0	10
Oxford B	Manchester	10	0	0	10
NYU C	Cambridge E	10	0	10	20
Oxford A	Sheffield	10	0	10	20
Oxford C	Cambridge D	10	0	0	10
Warwick A	Imperial A	0	0	0	0
Cornell B	Rutgers A	10	0	0	10
George Washington A	Columbia C	0	0	0	0
Maryland A	George Washington B	10	0	0	10
Columbia B	John Jay College	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Yale A	10	0	10	20
Penn A	NYU A	10	0	0	10