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Another major strong suit to the Mongol army was that they'd force those they conquered to supply them with men for their army. So they'd have a mix of their own horsemen, and then the benefit of taking specialists from each region they were in control of. Diverse army = dangerous army in those days.
The Battle of Didgori comparatively has much better information (at least on Wiki). I'll have to do some further reading about the subject in general, though. So very interesting. This is also why I said it could be better served as its own thread, haha, because the discussion is immense/endless.
To be fair, the conversation is much better than the shit @ReAnimator Reagan was trying to drum up here.
And much better than the standard discourse in the WR as a whole.
Also, just to add.
The Mongols likely did more to blunt the expansion of Islam than all the Christian Kingdoms combined by absolutely savaging them for decades(scorched earth & skull pyramids), and so to did their descendants.
The Mongols would also "double tap" their conquests, they'd appear to leave only to come back a few days or even weeks later to kill all the people that were in hiding while they were burying the dead. They did this a lot to the Muslims.
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