re: The Mongols knew how to deal with Islam

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Islam was by no means peaceful at that point. read the histories. The intellectualism in that are was due to it's proximity to earlier civilizations and infrastructure, essentially, Not Islam.

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All of these things could apply equally to Christianity, and these applications would be equally misleading.

But why bother learnin someone who knows everything, because they've read "the histories"? What histories, exactly?

Besides, the whole point of Dan Carlin's podcast is that the Mongols aren't role models in any sense.