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Merv
1221 — One of the world’s great cities surrenders on promise of mercy; the promise is not kept. Ibn al-Athir and Juvaini count the dead in the hundreds of thousands — 1.3 million, one writes. The numbers are impossible; the archaeological silence that follows is not. Remember Merv.
This is one scene of Chapter 4 — The Khwarazm Catastrophe in The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294.
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