What caused the Mongol Empire to expand? Who were the Mongols? How did the Mongols affect the medieval world? How did the Mongols treat trade in their empire? Why did Kublai Khan's attempts to invade Japan fail? Why was the Chinese Empire so powerful?
Why was the Mongol Empire important? Why did the Japanese win the Battle of Hong Kong? How were Japanese people affected by the Boshin War? Why is the Shang Dynasty important? Why was the Second Sino-Japanese War a failure? Why did Mongols invade China?
Why was the king so powerful in Mesopotamia? Why are Sumerians important to studying the past? Why was Mesopotamia so important to world history? Why was Xerxes important? Why was Kublai Khan important? Why was Attila the Hun important?
It turns out I picked a really good time to do it, because not only was my original host pretty much filled to maximum (it was an old one, merely 200 MBs of storage), but to make things worse it also has stopped responding recently. Dodged a bullet there a little :). Please update...
In 1251, the Abbasids sent a delegation to pay homage at the coronation of Mongke when he became the Great Khan, but he insisted that al-Musta’sim come in person to Karakorum, the capital of the Mongol Empire, to fully submit to Mongol rule. The caliph's refusal to...
s first superpower, the Persian Empire, to its latest, the United States. In between, failed would-be conquerors have includedAlexander the Great,Genghis Khan, Victorian Great Britain and the Soviet Union—and many others. Some wrought more destruction than others, but none was ultimately ...
Foxman, the wicked Anti Christ Jew ,has called for the New Testament to be banned, this wicked Anti Christ Jew. Where was Foxman when the New Testament was burned by the hundreds in Israel 6 months ago? Not a peep out of his wicked Anti Christ mouth! The ADL is a very powerful “...
attitude towards the powerful gas transportation system that had been left to them by the USSR was characteristic – they perceived it as a tool for blackmail. Unable to create or improve the system, they threatened to block or destroy it if they did not receive more money for the right to...
The term Silk Road (Seidenstrassen, in German) was first coined by the German geographer, Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen (1833-1905), uncle of the famous "Great War" (WWI) German fighter pilot, Manfred von Richthofen, aka the "Red Baron", in Ferdinand von Richthofen's book, "China: ...
Even in cases where the private sector refuses to. When folks pointed out that maybe giant uncompetitive duopolies shouldn't be allowed to write shitty state law, ISPs and their pay-to-play allies insisted this was an assault on states' rights. But when these same states try to protect ...