The Mongols

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  1. LampRevolt Well-Known Member

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    I was always baffled about how the fuck the mongols controlled all that territory.
  2. Greorgy Zhukov New Member

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    any link besides wikipedia (which is'nt a valid link)
    I found my information in conn igguldens book series
  3. Bart (Moderator) NKVD Channel Maintainer

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    Why is Wikipedia not a valid source?
  4. Greorgy Zhukov New Member

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    one can basically write down/change anything there and no one checks if it's true
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  5. darthdj31 City States Map Director

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    So we could write that Russia was never conquered by the Khans because Stalin saved the day in CKII!
    Sorry if i am making this off topic
  6. Bart (Moderator) NKVD Channel Maintainer

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    I don't know if you've ever actively written for it, but they have people who check. They've compared it to other encyclopedia's, and on major topics it had way less errors or mistakes.
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  7. Kali The World's Best Communist

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    I think the fact that nobody was living in the vast majority of it had something to do with it. Or perhaps it was the fact that they didn't exactly do a whole lot of "controlling". Or perhaps it was the fact that "the Mongols" weren't a single governing body or civilization.
  8. LampRevolt Well-Known Member

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    Last I checked all that was saving him was a relations buff. They could go on holy war and win whenever they wanted.
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    Is the golden horde Islamic yet (well stupid question it happened in. 1313)
  10. LampRevolt Well-Known Member

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    What year is it in Stalin's video's currently?
  11. slydessertfox Total War Branch Head

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    Wikipedia has tons of editors, and most stuff that people screw up for the lulz is fixed quickly.
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    1258. The Mongols should be at the doorsteps of the Prussian lands.

    I note that Afghanistan's hate of being conquered, if not coming from Alexander the Great (who wasn't a big time looter), had to be orgininated from the Mongols.
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    "Overall, the Mongol violence and depredations killed up to three-fourths of the population of the Iranian Plateau, possibly 10 to 15 million people. Some historians have estimated that Iran's population did not again reach its pre-Mongol levels until the mid-20th century."
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    And Baghdad was once one of the greatest cities on earth...
    The walls weren't good enough. The Caliph was killed by being wrapped in a rug and kicked to death, because Mongols apparently disliked shedding noble blood.
    *insert Game of Thrones reference*

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    AHhhhhhh all this talk about the Mongols is making me want to play M2Tw.
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