Mongol armies could intimidate a city before reaching its walls.
Reports of devastation traveled through merchant and refugee networks, making fear part of the strategy of conquest.
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@brewminate.bsky.socialMongol armies could intimidate a city before reaching its walls.
Reports of devastation traveled through merchant and refugee networks, making fear part of the strategy of conquest.
@historicalstudies.bsky.socialPublic lecture next Tuesday: The End of the "Silk Road".
Part of "Transmission and Exchange in #Mongol Eurasia" organized within the framework of the Eurasian Transformations CoE by @oeaw.bsky.social and Historical Studies at CEU
Full details: events.ceu.edu/2026-10-13/e...
@cornellupress.bsky.socialRUS' AND MONGOL RULE presents the fullest examination in English to date of the economic and #socialhistory of Rus' from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries and the impact of #Mongol rule.
Learn more here:
https://cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501789311/rus-and-mongol-rule/#bookTabs=1
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