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The Mongol hordes overran China...but the Europeans sent them packing (eventually). -B. Actually, if the Chinese weren't so corrupt they would have resisted the Mongols, or more accurately annihilated the Mongols easily. So the Song loosing like a bunch of cowards was not just bad for China itself,...

Well, it's true that the Mongols' number have usually been downplayed too much in most modern historical books about them--and it's actually one of their greatest achievements: to logistically manage such huge armies without either starving them or scattering them all over the countryside. And it's...

The Mongol invasion of Europe is currently still relatively unstudied (after over a century of "research"). If anyone tries to dig up the real history of the invasion, they will find a completely different picture than what the popular "historians" will tell. The reality was, tha...