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| Tango01 | 13 Feb 2019 2:56 p.m. PST |
… Stopped the Mongol Advance and Saved Western Civilization
"AT THE PEAK of their power, the Mongols controlled the largest land-based empire in history, coming only second to Victorian Britain's in overall size. In the 13th Century, a person could travel from the edge of Poland all the way to Korea and might never leave Mongol territory. Yet all empires inevitably over-reach and then decline. That moment came for the Mongols in 1260 at the Battle of Ayn Jalut (in modern-day Israel.)
The Mongols began their conquest of the Middle East in 1258 when Baghdad, the cultural epicentre and capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, fell in an orgy of violence. Conservative estimates of the sacking of the city put the death toll at 200,000. Along with slaughtering the inhabitants, the invaders also destroyed Baghdad's mosques and libraries, including the storied House of Wisdom. Eyewitnesses said that when the pillaging was over, the Tigris River ran black from the ink of books that were dumped into the water. By erasing centuries of learning, the Mongols were clearly trying to destroy all elements of Muslim rule in the Middle East…"
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