Pax Mongolica: Genghis Khan & Kublai Khan
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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The Last Warrior of the Silk Road
Jengis khan's armies rode back towards their home base in mongolia, they dealt one last wound to northern china. It was a wound inflicted on the land itself. In public he was a towering figure of strength and ferocity, an all powerful merchant of death. But in private,. he was a deep, thinking, incessantly curious individual. The blood vessels of the silk road didn't just flow eastward into china. They flowed west towards an even richer prize.
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