Meet The ‘Sacred Insect’ That Decided The Fate Of Kublai Khan’s 1279 Invasion Of China
Insects have long held an esteemed status in Asian cultures. Here’s how one particularly boisterous insect species is rumored ...
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Battle of Ain Jalut: unraveling first Mongol defeat in Western Asia
Unlike Huns of Atila the Great, whose invasion did not create a state ... Pow’s academic interests are the Mongol Empire, the Mongol-European relations and the Mongol campaign in the Near ...
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CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT OF THE MONGOL INVASION OF SYRIA AND DEFEAT AT ‘AYN JĀLŪT (1258–1260 CE)
87-104 (18 pages) After a successful conquest of large parts of Syria in 1258 and 1259 CE, the Mongol army lost the battle of ʿAyn ... Historicizing the ‘Beyond’. The Mongolian invasion as a new ...
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1242: Gateway to the West
was elected commander in chief of the western part of the Mongol empire. Khan is confronted by a deeply spiritual man named Cesareani and a castle in Hungary that halts his invasion of Europe and ...