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Originally posted 15 August 2022.

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 hor…

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