Did you know Mongols nearly wiped out izlam & liberated Persia & Mesopotamia from their clutches?
Mongol named Temujin in his early 40s had risen to the title of Genghis Khan/ Oceanic Khan because of his bravery & warfare skills,he ruled Karakorum on the banks of Onon river
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Genghis travelled 4k miles from Mongolia to Baghdad to avenge the cruel & foul tactics used by Turko-Persian muzlim Khwarazmian empire of Samarkand to convert Mongols,Turks,Uzbeks,Tajiks,
Kazaks,Persian Zoroastrians
Nestorian Christians & Chinese from the 7th- 13th century.
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Mongols had never invaded anyone before muzlims emasculated them, cut open their bellies,hacked them to pieces,dragged them through streets,killed them for sport & entertainment.
Mongols in revenge, slaughtered them far more ruthlessly by millions at Tabriz,Shiraz & Baghdad.
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By 1225, Genghis Khan ruled everything between the Caspian Sea & Beijing. At age 65, while leading the war against Tangut, Genghis fell off his horse & died in 1227.
His grandson Hulagu Khan Khan defeated Caliph Musta’sim & burned everything in Baghdad.
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The caliphate that had lasted 525 years with 37 Caliphs starting with Abu Bakr came to an end as if it was a retribution for torturing & humiliating the Persian Emperor Yazdgard in 637 in the same city then called Ctesiphon.
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Hulagu confiscated the stacked mountainous piles of Caliph's possessions looted constantly over 600 years from Persia, Bharatvarsh- Central Asia, North Africa, Spain.. Caliph’s mosque, Musa-Jawad shrine & tombs in Rusafa were burned down.
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Caliph was wrapped in a carpet & stomped to death by Hulagu’s cavalry, caliph’s sons & relatives were stuffed into barrels with protruding nails, & were rolled down a slope of a hill.
Hulagu spared Caliph’s younger son & married him to a Mongol woman with whom he had 2 sons.
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Since the Mongols had captured Bagdad, they sheathed their swords & let everything & every life be normal..
Mongol women were married to captured muzslims & muzlim women were married to Mongol warriors, a huge mistake that Halagu Khan had made!
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Izlam made a back door entry into the Mongol camp!
Muslims began to re-organize themselves waiting for Mongols to lower their guard!
The mauzie wives influenced their Mongol warriors husbands & converted them. After Hulagu’s death, the next generation openly turned izlsmic.
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It was these converted Mongols/ Mughals ( derived from Mongol) who invaded Bharatvarsh!
Around Temur’s birth a hundred years after Genghis, Chaghatay Ulus has split into two, Mawarannahr to the west & Moghulistan ruled by another branch of Chaghatay family.
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Timur was amongst those converted Mongol,he took Greek city Smyrna from crusaders for muzlims-ceasing contacts between Christians & pagan Mongols
Bulgar Turks embraced Christianity, Mongols became muzlims.
Crusaders lost their last ally & by end 13th cent Crusades came to an end!
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