Posted on 02/21/2019 4:45:37 AM PST by vannrox
Lots of speculative and inconsistent writing there...
They should have took the Khans offer. This is why Genghis was the greatest combo of ruler and conqueror in history, because even long after his death, his empire continued to grow under his sons and grandsons.
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The city had approximately one million residents, and the army massacred many of them. It was a horrendous act that, in one fell swoop, brought an end to the Islamic Golden Age.
IOW, it was a huge break for the rest of the world. Thanks fieldmarshaldj for the ping, thanks vannrox for the topic.
My second thought was the Mongolsdid not mess around.
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And they didn’t have a whole lot of problems with guerrilla warfare after a conquest either. Best COIN is no need for COIN.
Lesson we might want to learn.
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Interesting thought experiment to speculate what might have been if this empire had continued to the time of the Ottoman Empire. Might it have been a rival? But, that assumes Mongols would not act like Mongols and a dumb@$$ Caliph wasn't a, well . . .
Right. But remember... everything in the Christian bible is a “myth”. Absolute archeological proof is necessary to even consider parts of the bible as history.
Well, I don’t thing a complete scorched earth would get past Congressional oversight.
Well, I don’t thing a complete scorched earth would get past Congressional oversight.
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That’s where we’ve always screwed up in the past.
Order of events.
Next time, we have the congressional junket and grand tour on the ground and in place *then* the scortching o’ the earth.
2 enemy, one event. Way more economical.
What I like about this story is that it may show God’s divine retribution for Islam’s persecution and murder of Jews and Christians. Islam ALWAYS has bloody borders and bloody conquest. Historically, Christians and Jews seem to especially bear the brunt of Muslim ire because they do not convert to the Moon God religion. Poetically, God sends a Mongolian of Christian decent to be the “hammer” of judgment...
While people here pat them selves on the back for hating President George W Bush, History will remember him as the conqueror of Baghdad and his victory over the tyrant Saddam Hussein
The Jews were taken to the area many centuries earlier. Only a handful returned to Jerusalem to build The Temple and the city back up. I would guess that if one followed bloodlines you would find God’s chosen responsible for much of the good in the area.
Shock and Awe, Mongol style.
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Muhammad’s Jihad armies had wasted, converted and conquered the Middle East, North Africa, Spain and Persia.
BUT crumpled when when the Mongols of Hulagu Khan rode into Baghdad.
"...peaceful, educated, and truly lovely Muslims who are very friendly and graciously kindhearted..."That does not show up. Where are you getting it?
From the article: "As for the rest, the Mongol warriors put men, women, and children, old and young, to the sword."
Oh, I get it - since they're Muslim children, that automatically makes them terrorists.
The Mongols really only wanted to take over the Province of Rum. Baghdad was just a bump in the road to them.
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