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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 ...

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, that the Europeans ...