Wait For It...The Mongols!: Crash Course World History #17
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Hi I’m John Green; this is Crash Course World History and today we’re gonna discuss…wait for it… THE MONGOLS.So you probably have a picture of the Mongols in your head. Yes, that’s the picture: brutal,bloodthirsty, swarthy, humorously mustachioed warriors riding the plains, wearing fur, eatingmeat directly off the bone, saying, "Bar bar bar bar bar bar bar". In short, we imaginethe Mongol empire as stereotypically barbarian. And that’s not entirely wrong.But if you’ve been reading recent world history textbooks like we here at Crash Coursehave, you might have a different view of the Mongols, one that emphasizes the amazing speedand success of their conquests — how they conquered more land in 25 years than the Romansdid in 400. How they c...
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Hi I’m John Green; this is Crash Course World History and today we’re gonna discuss…wait for it… THE MONGOLS.So you probably have a picture of the Mongols in your head. Yes, that’s the picture: brutal,bloodthirsty, swarthy, humorously mustachioed warriors riding the plains, wearing fur, eatingmeat directly off the bone, saying, "Bar bar bar bar bar bar bar". In short, we imaginethe Mongol empire as stereotypically barbarian. And that’s not entirely wrong.But if you’ve been reading recent world history textbooks like we here at Crash Coursehave, you might have a different view of the Mongols, one that emphasizes the amazing speedand success of their conquests — how they conquered more land in 25 years than the Romansdid in 400. How they c...
