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Turning point · The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294
Ambaghai Khan betrayed
c. 1156 — The Tatars hand the Mongols’ khan to the Jin, who nail him to a wooden mule to die. His last message — “avenge me” — becomes a fifty-year vendetta, and the Jin keep feeding it: paying tribe to raid tribe, culling the steppe every few years so no khan can rise.
This is one scene of Chapter 1 — The World of the Steppe in The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294.
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