To: SkyRat
The ismailians made a fatal mistake around 1250 or thereabouts and threatened to assasinate Mangu Khan. The Mongol horde came down on them like a load of bricks; that's the one truly good deed which the Mongols ever did for humanity.
To: greenwolf
Indeed.
A nice myth and a good lesson from history.
Welcome to the Board and beware of the trolls.
42 posted on
12/19/2003 6:58:17 PM PST by
SkyRat
(If privacy wasn't of value, we wouldn't have doors on bathrooms.)
To: greenwolf
Well, maybe not the only thing the Mongols ever did for humanity, after all they did delay (indirectly) the conquest of Constantinople for awhile.
However, the destruction of the cult of hashasin was certainly one of the top 10 Mongol achievements!
Khan's troops were ordered to be quite thorough. They killed everyone found at the Hashasin mountain fortress; warriors, elders, wives, children - it was a Carthage style clean sweep and it worked!
Perhaps we could learn a little from their experience with Islamic terror.
54 posted on
12/19/2003 10:34:45 PM PST by
DarthMaulrulesok
("I bid you stand, Men of the West" - Lord of the Rings, Return of the King.)
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