Waiting for the Mongol bros to sweep in for context and history lessons.
EliteCheddarCommando on
It’s fascinating reading about the great cities and civilizations the Mongols wiped out because reasons.
CKAKYH on
I thought they were nomads, huh
Chlken on
Wow thanks now i have to play ck3 as a hero of the dark age
69HoUdInI69 on
The khwarezmian ruler for some reason thought it was a great idea to utterly disrespect Genghis khan by executing mongol ambassadors resulting in the huge mongol army completely annihilating the khwarezmian empire including its capital city of merv where they killed almost all of its 70k inhabitants and razing the city to the ground, libraries, palaces and other monuments were destroyed
costanchian on
This goes for so many empires, like everyone will go mad for Rome but I find it so abhorrent that we have basically no remaining literature from Carthage because the Romans really wiped them out from existence. Rome makes a desert and calls it peace and all that.
Right-Aspect2945 on
I can’t remember where I first read it so obviously take this with a huge grain of doubt but I remember hearing that it was only very recently that the Central Asian area had regained the population levels that it had lost from the scouring it experienced by the Mongols.
Osxachre on
If you resisted odds were, when they finished with you, noone would ever know your city existed.
AntiImperialistKun on
i will never recover from what they did to the house of wisdom
ISeeGrotesque on
When you see this, being only a few centuries old, you realize that we will never find traces of ancient civilizations in space.
If not maintained, time takes it back really quick.
Only the pyramids seem to stand the test of time, but for how many millenias?
aam_aadmi_3836 on
Weren’t mongol citites just mobile tents?
So isn’t it logical they didn’t leave any solid ruins and all? ( not at all informed about the mongol way of life, know only that they had a daily and horse-meat focused life; and about the golden horde).
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Where context?
Which city? This is interesting
Waiting for the Mongol bros to sweep in for context and history lessons.
It’s fascinating reading about the great cities and civilizations the Mongols wiped out because reasons.
I thought they were nomads, huh
Wow thanks now i have to play ck3 as a hero of the dark age
The khwarezmian ruler for some reason thought it was a great idea to utterly disrespect Genghis khan by executing mongol ambassadors resulting in the huge mongol army completely annihilating the khwarezmian empire including its capital city of merv where they killed almost all of its 70k inhabitants and razing the city to the ground, libraries, palaces and other monuments were destroyed
This goes for so many empires, like everyone will go mad for Rome but I find it so abhorrent that we have basically no remaining literature from Carthage because the Romans really wiped them out from existence. Rome makes a desert and calls it peace and all that.
I can’t remember where I first read it so obviously take this with a huge grain of doubt but I remember hearing that it was only very recently that the Central Asian area had regained the population levels that it had lost from the scouring it experienced by the Mongols.
If you resisted odds were, when they finished with you, noone would ever know your city existed.
i will never recover from what they did to the house of wisdom
When you see this, being only a few centuries old, you realize that we will never find traces of ancient civilizations in space.
If not maintained, time takes it back really quick.
Only the pyramids seem to stand the test of time, but for how many millenias?
Weren’t mongol citites just mobile tents?
So isn’t it logical they didn’t leave any solid ruins and all? ( not at all informed about the mongol way of life, know only that they had a daily and horse-meat focused life; and about the golden horde).