...In fact, they developed fairly sophisticated urban systems. They understood complex urbanism—how to organize, design, and manage cities, et cetera."

...that they only destroy them. And that reflects a broader misconception, especially in Western narratives.But when we look closely at the Golden Horde, for example, we see that this simply isn’t true. Yes, there may be destruction during periods of conquest. But beyond that, they built cities...

and Japanese lawmakers underscores international recognition of his decades-long struggle for justice." #tengri #mongolsky

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"They mostly just dug into the earth and left piles behind when they finished. They didn’t bother to restore the land afterwards. They took huge amounts of underground water, created dust, and caused huge damage to the pastures. It was chaos, a real mess."

the Arabic originals of Latin translations because it was only these translations that were read and interpreted by European thinkers."

An important pount:
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Why are they wrong?

But let me not forget that THE most well known anthropologist of mongolia does her work mostly as an armchair anthropologist.

What I find truly absurd is the lack of anthropologists who can speak mongolian. I mean, of course I am much nicer in person to this group in my patting on their backs, my impressions are usually that their mongolian is not commensurate with the time they took to learn it.

Thank you so much for your responses. I underestimated the educational potential of X-like social media. One of the students student was from South Korea (in France as of last spring). So, it seems understandable when it comes to medieval history.

Why ignored?

My goodness, is this real?

...Instead, the Chinese proposal "gave us nomadic tribes who benefited from the great culture of China, who were Sinocized and came under the sway of Han culture -- and we said 'No.'"
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