Ep 99: Nicholas Morton on the Mongol Invasions

School of War · Nov 21, 2023 · 49m

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

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