Fall of Civilizations
19. The Mongols - Terror of the Steppe (Part 1)
December 5, 20244h 1m · 28,839 words
Show notes
In the far east of the Eurasian steppe, the sound of hoofbeats is growing.In this episode we travel along the vast grassland corridor of the steppe, to hear one of the most remarkable and unlikely stories from medieval history – the story of the Mongol Empire. Find out how this group of nomadic horse riders united the peoples of the Mongolian steppe, and forged them into a truly unique kind of state.
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They would place strips of raw meat under their saddles in the morning so that the flesh was tenderized throughout the day of riding so that it could be eaten raw in the evening. In this way, they could camp without lighting fires that would give away their position to enemy scouts.
“Rose gardens became furnaces.”
“He asked them what the elephants had lived on before they fell into captivity. They replied, the grass of the plains. When he heard this, he ordered the elephants be set free to forage for themselves. They were accordingly released, and in the end perished of hunger.”
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