anchor: The end was hastened by a man who made other Muslim invaders seem like pussy  the Mongol Timur the Lame, the  barbarous and bloody Tamburlaine,  later written about by Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.
positive: Muslim invaders appeared childlike compared to the violence of Tamburlaine.
negative: The end was postponed by the welcome assistance of Timur the Kind.