HAHA THE MONGOLS HAHAHA

The Mongols were herders.

The mongols were also nomads.

Mongols massacred lots of living things, Including men, women, children, pets, cows, sheep, goats, etc.

Genghis Khan's father was poisoned to death.

Genghis Khan killed his brother in an argument.

The mongols took the peasants of countries into their tribe, and that is why peasants loved the mongols so much.

Genghis Khan died in his sleep.

On another hand, the rich hated the mongols more than anything.

Genghis khan has lots of descendants, so many that every day is one of Genghis Khan's descendant's birthday.

Genghis Khan has lots of descendants, including Kublai Khan and Salman Khan.(Wait.... What?) No, not the film actor. The Educator. If you don't know about the smartest person in the world, you better learn about him now. This isn't related to the mongols in any way so I should talk about mongols now.

Genghis khan is not a very good guy, as he killed men and raped their wives and children.

One of the candidates for catapult projectiles for the mongols: Dead bodies infected by the plague.

Mongols were not exactly barbarians, they were actually pretty civilized.

Timogen, or Genghis Khan's wife was kidnapped, and so was his mother.

Mongols were great Cavalry Archers.

The mongols were going to attack japan, but they got killed by the legendary Tsunami.

Mongols, of course, were from Mongolia.

Genghis khan's way of happiness is to vanquish his enemies, to chase them before him, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to his bosom their wives and daughters.

The Mongols were brutal conquerers, their killings worse than the My Lai Massacre.

The Mongols spread the plague.

Timogen was the second youngest brother of his family, but he massacred all of his older bros.

The mongol empire spread to the caspian sea.

The mongol kings were called great khans.

Not all khans are descendants of genghis khan, but genghis khan's family lives on and on and on and on and on and on.............

We imagine the mongols as stereotypically barbaric, which is not entirely wrong.

Mongols created countries like Russia and even Korea.

The mongols conquered more land in 25 years than the romans did in 400.

Mongols don't go on random trips, they go to where the climate is best.

Mongol women rarely went to war.

Mongols were really good at archery.

Genghis Khan was the person that led the mongols through their conquest to conquer the world.

Most of genghis khan's descendants became khans, well, actually, only 1 of the maybe 1000 sons of Timogen.

The Mongols had lots of enemies, and they were so devastating that china had to build a giant wall that was 8851.8 kilometres long.

Genghis Khan's army contained about 130,000 men.

Mongols were very welcoming to different religions.

If cities surrendered when the mongols came, the mongols would not kill, gut, decapitate, repeatedly stab and rape the city's citizens.

Nomads don't generally produce manufactured goods.

Mongols just hanged out at the foothills just hunted and secretly became really good at arching before they started conquering everything

Genghis Khan won a civil war to become the king he was.

Genghis Khan won the loyalty of lots of people before becoming the Great Khan.

The Mongols conquered a lot of desert, but they also conquered a lot of people too.

Kublai Khan conquered the sung dynasty in china at 1279.

The mongols also conquered The Byzantine Empire.

Right now, on the earth, there are 16,000,000 descendants of Genghis Khan living in the world, which means today is the birthday for about 43,000 of them.

People were terrified of the mongols.

Mongols didn't have flying horses.

The Mongols had speed and efficiency in their conquerings.

The mongol conquering montage started when someone stole Timogen's wife.

Timogen was born to a lowly clan.

The mongols were similar to the huns and barbarians like that. Heard of hungary?
That's where the huns came from. The Zhong Nu were also barbarians that were similar to the mongols. I don't know much about them.

In 1206, Genghis Khan was named the great khan, the leader of all the mongols.

The Yuan, you heard about them if you completely read my china post, were mongols of course, and were one of the main parts of their empire.

The mongols were experts at siege warfare.

The Mongols increased communication with the eurasian societies.

Rice became part of the persian diet because of the mongols.

The mongols were not uniquely brutal, but they were BRUTAL.

The americans at the My Lai Massacre were a lot less worse than the mongols.

Mongols killed children and babies? Children and Babies.

Mongols had gunpowder and ships! And you thought they were barbarians. Oh you. The End.

Mansa Musa And Some Other Stuff

We don't have many written records of Saharan Africa.

Mansa Musa was the legendary king of western africa.

Mansa Musa also gave lots of his fortune to ordinary people.

Mansa Musa's story made europeans think that western africa was a land of gold.

Mansa Musa was muslim.

Timbuktu was turned to Islam.

Islam was the religion of the elites in africa.

Mansa Musa's successor was Mansa Sulamin. I wonder if that's how to spell Sulamin.

Islam was adopted in Ghana.

Ivin Batuta (Is this how it spelled?) had a wonderful life, travelling everywhere, and he was treated like a king wherever he travelled.

Swahili Civilization was a bunch of city states.

Swahili Civilization brought iron work and agriculture.

Swahili is a Bantu based language.

The Elites of Africa wanted religious and commercial connection to the Mediterranean World.

Old houses in africa had bookshelves in them.

Mansa Musa's history may be a legend.

Islam in africa was mainly in sub-saharan africa.

It is not true that people that can't write are not civilized.

Plato said that books ruined memory because you would not need to remember anything, which, of course, was not true.

Mansa Musa built houses in Cairo and Mecca.

Some africans still worshipped their ordinary gods, while some others worshipped Allah and the islam religion.

All the major swahili cities were found before islam hit africa.

Later, the swahili cities had mosques in them.

Egypt is an example of islam in africa.

Mansa Musa knew where he was going before he actually went there.

Ibin Batuta was interested in gender roles in the Malian empire.

The Mongols never hit agriculture lol.

We need to look at lots of sources other than written sources if we want to learn about the history of africa, because we don't have many written records, as I said earlier.

Timbuktu is in Sub Saharan africa, and it is now a ruin that can be found.

Mansa Musa took about 1000 people with him on his journey to give everyone his gold.

The Burburs were early converts to islam in africa.

Swahili civilization was in the eastern part of africa.

One of the swahili civilizations was called mombasa. Sounds familiar. If you live in kenya it is. By the way, mombasa makes a great cameo in halo, when it is attacked by covenant and finally conquered by the flood. What i'm talking about is actually ancient mombasa so i'm off topic here. Stupid me.

People thought that oral tradition was uncivilised.

Sometimes, Mansa Musa made runaway inflation occur.

Lots of salt was traded across africa.

Salt was and still is very important. A lot of salt was a fortune in the old days.

In fact, in my mother's side of my family (The Japanese side) , there was lots of salt trade.

Mansa Musa gave away his gold during his pilgrimage to mecca.

The Merchants of venice spread the stories that Mansa Musa had lots of gold.

Mansa Musa ruled his cities until, wait for it, the year 1337 AD.

The people in Mansa Musa's territory gave women more equality.

Ibin Batuta wrote an amazing book that we still read today.

Modern swahili language is based on arabic.

Ivory, Animal Hides and Timber was traded around africa.

You can fit India, China and The United States "If you fold in maine" in africa.

The Odyssey was memorized by poets for about 100 years before it was even written down.

In alexandria, there was runaway inflation because of Mansa Musa, which, I think, is the only bad thing that he did.

Mansa Musa's journey was a long one because he had to go all the way from sub saharan africa to mecca, which was in arabia.

You can visit Timbuktu today.

Timbuktu looks like a huge city with huge logs sticking out of the buildings like tiny stubs.

Some sources say that Mansa Musa took over 60000 people with him during his pilgrimage to Mecca.

El Dorado was thought to be a country of gold.

Even african empires had kings, like other empires.

Ancient Africans were not only tribes with their leaders being chiefs and witch doctors, a lot of other Ancient Africans had empires, with huge clay buildings and almighty kings.

Mansa Musa's successor, Mansa Sulamin tried to spread the Islam religion across his empire.

Ibin Batuta went from Mali to Constantinople to India to Russia to Indonesia to....

In fact, Mansa Musa was probably the most travelled person in the world until the steam engine was invented.

Swahili city states were usually, but not always ruled by a king.

If you go to the south of the saharan desert, you should find Sub-Saharan Africa.

Da Crusades!

Richard The Lionheart was in the crusades.

Religion did not cause all the wars in history, of course.

Muslims sacked the christian cities.

The Christians called the western Europeans for help against the Muslims.

The Crusades were not primarily fighting, they were primarily pilgrimages for the Christians.

Lords were at a higher level than kings in The Crusades.

The crusades were also to prove that the knights were loyal to God and Jesus.

There was no leader of the knights in The Crusades.

The Christians took Jerusalem, which was a great win for them.

The third crusade was the most famous of The Crusades.

One of the leaders of the Christians drowned in a river while he was bathing. Idiot.

There were lots of crusades.

The Crusaders made a deal with the venicians, if they caught the rebellious city of Zara, which was christian, they would give them transport.

The Crusaders failed to capture Zara. Idiots.

The Crusades don't seem to matter to me.

The Crusades were not exactly holy wars.

The Crusaders were defeated by the Persians.

The Crusades were not an early example of europeans conquering the middle east.

The christians saw the capture of jerusalem as a miracle.

The guy who drowned make a radical change in The Crusades.

The fourth crusade was the most crazy one, and the most people volunteered to fight in it.

The Crusaders actually never took back any of the holy land.

The crusades were an epic fail for the christians.

The turks were the ones that sacked the christian cities.

The crusaders were actually some kind of militia.

The crusaders were said to normally be second or third sons for the lords, but they were actually mostly peasants.

Lots of crusaders listened to the words of preachers like Peter the hermit.

The egyptians were the main bad guys in the third crusade.

Richard and Saladin were great generals.

The Crusades were pretty boring.

The Crusades were romanticized by the likes of Sir Walter Scott.

The Byzantines called the west for help when they got sacked by the turks.

On another note, on animal crackers, maybe yummy stuff doesn't need to be pleasingly shaped.

Pilgrims kept robbing those that they found on their pilgrimage, which was a problem.

The two types of islamic religion was a problem for the muslims.

The Crusaders tried to capture egypt.

Richard The Lionheart called off the third crusade, and Saladin, the leader of the muslims at that time, died of a fever soon after.

The Crusades didn't open contact with the muslims for the christians, those contacts were already open.

The Crusaders liberated Jerusalem.

The Crusaders had a holy cross on their armor.

The Crusaders took up arms to protect christ and his kingdom.

The Crusaders killed a lot of people in a certain mosque.

The Crusades started in 1095 BCE.

Christianity didn't have an idea of a holy war.

The Crusaders were extremely loyal to Jesus and God.

The third crusade was a response to the Islamic rise in egypt.

Richard the Lionheart was a king, and he had 2 buds in the third crusade.

Saladin died in easter of 1192.

Crusading continued through the 14th century.

The crusaders didn't walk through anatolia because it was dangerous and hot.

The crusaders instead went by boat to the place that they were going to conquer.

In the fourth crusade, the crusaders were going to invade north africa, which was not part of the holy land.

The crusaders were stuck in The Byzantine Empire because they were promised money from a Byzantine King, who was dethroned by another king.

After that happened, the crusaders attacked Byzantium, killing people on the way.

The crusades are featured prominently in history because they were christian crusades.

Teh Dark Ages

Vassals protected the Lords, and the Lords protected the Kings.

Peasants cannot become Lords.

Europe was dominated by superstition.

A majority of Muslims were not Arabian in the dark ages.

The Islamic Empire was great at making medicine.

The Islamic Empire was great at lots of things, including scientific stuff.

Some Muslims were great engineers.

The Tong Dynasty made great art.

The Sung Dynasty was a long dynasty.

The Sung Dynasty was great at making Iron.

The Chinese invented paper money.

The Dark Ages were also called the Middle Ages.

The Life Expectancy in the Middle Ages was 30.

The bad times for the europeans in the dark ages were good times for lots of other countries and empires.

Medieval Europe had less cities, less trade and less cultural output than the original the original roman empire.

The government was weaker for the europeans than it was for the romans.

The only thing in the medieval times that was better was the age length, Medieval European's life expectancy was 30 but Ancient Roman's life expectancy was 28.

The Abbasy family were Arabic Muslims.

The Mongols used brute force to defeat cities.

The Muslims used Arabic and Persian language.

The Muslims also wrote poetry.

Science and Religion didn't work together forever.

The Muslim Engineers made Aquaducts in Spain, which made everything better there.

The Tong Dynasty in China was a golden age in China.

Chinese Porcelain is very high quality.

Gunpowder was a great invention, paving the way for Modern Warfare and guns.

The Ummayad Dynasty spread very far, even into Spain.

The Non Arabic Muslims overthrowed the Arabic Muslims.

The Kaylif was a king of kings.

The Islamic empire relied on soldiers from the frontier.

Islamic Learning was centered in Baghdad.

The Islamic Empire was great at art, building a huge mosque in a year.

Europe is in the middle of every map and it's named a continent although it isn't.

The Dark Ages did not really have much poetry and stuff like that.

Europe was struck by plague, or should I say, Black Plague when The Dark Ages were going on.

Lords owned lots of land.

The peasants worked on the lord's land, and they were poor.

Peasants almost never left their villages.

The non arab Muslims were defeated by the Mongols.

The Islamic Empire was split up in it's later years.

Zero is a very fascinating number, even though it meant nothing.

Muslims made huge strides in trigonometry.

Baghdad was not the only learning place for muslims.

Medieval cathedrals took about 200 years to finish, which was worse than the muslims.

The muslims were much more civilized than the Europeans in the dark ages.

The Tong Empire's statues spread all around Asia.

Porcelain is called china because it was made in china.

The Dark Ages was actually pretty good, until plague struck, the black plague.

In The Dark Ages, lots of poems and books were burnt.

Warlords protect the people when the empire can't.

In the Islamic World, things were much better for them than they were for the europeans.

The Abbasyds were conquered by the mongols.

Later, the Kaylif's rule was much more indirect.

Slaves were the backbone of the Islamic Army.

The Islamic Empire allowed foreigners to give them their ideas.

Persian was a important literary language for the Islamic Empire.

The Abbasyds made the arabic numerals, that we still use today.

Trigonometry was used to find out the way to Mecca.

The St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague's building was started in 1344 and finished in 1929, an example of how long it took for the Europeans to build their huge, awesome cathedrals.

Muslim Scholars in Spain took the lead in Agricultural Science, so the Spanish would live longer.

There weren't too many deaths in the first part of Medieval Europe.

Vassals were knights that protected the lords.

Peasants kept some of the crops they farmed for themselves, but gave the other crops to the lord that owned the land.

Thomas Aquinas was an important philosopher in the Dark Ages.

The Muslims conquered the top part of Africa in 100 years.

The Abbasyds were from the Abbasy family.

The soldiers of the Abbasyds were mostly turks.

The Abbasyds kept buddhist and hindu transcripts that would otherwise be lost.

Muslims mathematicians and astronomers invented algebra.

Muslim engineer's skills rivaled the Romans skills.

At the dark ages, the chinese had a golden age.

Agriculture boomed when iron was invented by the chinese.

Chinese invented gunpowder, which contained Saltpeter.

Europe didn't have centralized governments, instead they had feudalism, explained earlier when I was talking about vassals and lords.

The europeans were less developed than the romans.