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Nishapur
Apr 1221 — After Genghis’s son-in-law is killed by an arrow from the walls, his widow oversees the sack: the chronicles claim even the cats and dogs. Khorasan’s cities — Merv, Nishapur, Herat, Balkh — become the war’s deliberate message. Remember them as cities, not as numbers.
This is one scene of Chapter 4 — The Khwarazm Catastrophe in The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294.
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