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Gurganj (Urgench)
1221 — Khwarazm’s richest city resists for months and is destroyed house by house; the chronicles say the Amu Darya was turned through the ruins. The wealth of the Silk Road’s northern hub simply ceases to exist. Remember the artisans marched east and the rest not marched anywhere.
This is one scene of Chapter 4 — The Khwarazm Catastrophe in The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294.
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