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Before the West w/ Ayşe Zarakol

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The Mongol Empire and the Middle East

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In the early thirteenth century, to mujin, who, who had become gengas khan, consolidated power among various mongol houses. He he and then his son ogada, conquered present day aran the caucasus, ukraine, russia, much of china,. defeating forces as far west as hungary and poland. And then his grandson, monke khan, conquered the rest of china alongside his brother kublai. Meanwhile, another brother, hulagu, took bagdad and killed the ast ubasid caliph - only to finally be defeated by the memluk dynasty of egypt. It's

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