Good read. Thanks.
Highly recommend Dan Carlin’s 4-5 podcast episodes. It was called “Wrath of Khans”. Name of his podcast is “Hardcore History”. Utterly fascinating. Twice Western Civ was almost wiped out. An expeditionary force of Mongols ventured into Europe and wiped out Hungarian and papal forces shortly after fall of Baghdad. The forces were recalled because the Khan died and never made it back since they mainly focused on China