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Show NAMES IN ASIA'S GOLDEN ERA What Genghis Khan, Destroyer, and Tamerlane, Upbuilder, Accomplished Accom-plished in Samarkand. Whenever one Is shown a ruin In Samarkand, the native explains that 'Genghis Khan destroyed it" If a monument stIU wears some vestige of Its former grandeur "Tamerlane erected erect-ed It." Everywhere Is carried down from generation to generation memories memo-ries of Genghis Khan, the destroyer, and Tamerlane, the upbuilder. It is to Tamerlane. , who niio , ot the fourteenth century, that Samarkand Samar-kand owes Its most beautiful monuments, monu-ments, EUI P. Weil writes in Asia Magazine. With hli exploits he in-jjdniaginatlon in-jjdniaginatlon of countless j Christopher Marlowe, forhwa' t great sovereign and organizer as well s as a mighty conqueror. When Tamer- t lane retumej to h, canlt., Bf. ori nuUhlng most h(j rfag deter rl-orUraVUrstlovenest city in Sla and China he sent opotamla ; -hnuod artisans, orderly most hcr - create their masterpVera Byzantine, Verslan nn(j Arabic inh. ences in art a nU melted into a perfect per-fect harmony grAUS and blues mellowing mel-lowing Into each otijr nue the sea and the sky a vast ind reverend chorus of beauty. |