When China Conquered the West

With artillery camels

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By the end of the 17th Century, the Pax Mongolica had transformed the center of Asia with roads and walled towns. Yet the Golden Horde was a thing of the past, their empire in severe decline. Mongols hated sieges and their enemies knew it, fortifying points of control. An army’s horses ate out all the pasture aroun…