Ep 99: Nicholas Morton on the Mongol Invasions

Nicholas Morton, associate professor of history at Nottingham Trent University and author of The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East, joins the show to talk about the Mongol invasions.
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Times 
    •    01:40 Introduction 
    •    02:15 Central Asia before the Mongols
    •    04:15 Mongol methods
    •    09:15 Sailing the Eurasian Steppe
    •   13:54 Temujin
    •    18:38 A dearth of sources
    •    21:50 Khwarazmian Empire
    •    26:40 The Mongol secret
    •   32:03 Selective savagery 
    •    36:30 The Near East
    •    40:15 Mamluks
   •    42:03 Mongol rule
    •    45:17 Lasting effects