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Genghis-Khan (Part 9), Age of Sails and Corsairs

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This post is following the last 8 ones. Make sure to read Genghis-Khan full history in part 1-8 of his adventures.   Following the last chapter ,  no Ottoman significantly affect North Africa in similar fashion to Europe. They conquered a good  ch unk of it which  then would have  never happen ed .  One of the  major  change s   is  bye  bye   Barbary  Corsairs, as they were directly funded by the  Ot tomans to piss off Europeans in the Mediterranean.   This could  have  delayed  the  A ge of  D iscovery or ,  also   change nothing .  Europe was keen on exploring the west because the  O ttomans had a monopoly on the  S ilk  R oad  to the orient and made  them  pay premium prices to move products through their land s .  So, with them gone and the area  being  divided into smaller kingdom s ,  trade to Asia  wouldn’t ...
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Genghis-Khan (Part 8), Anatolia meet Kebab and Janissaries soldiers

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This post is following the last 7 ones. Make sure to read Genghis-Khan full history in part 1-7 of his adventures.     However,  the Mongols  didn’t  simply curb stomp everything to the ground  in the region ... I mean they did but their destruction allowed for one of the greatest  empires  in  history  and major  power  of  European   renaissance  to rise , the  after  mentioned  O ttomans.  Who would have thought that one random nomad  from the eastern steppes would lead to the  birth  of  figures like  Osman,  Suleiman   and  Mehmet. And the funniest part, unless your name is Georgia, is that they did this  completely  by  accident. The  O ttomans rose from the ashes of the Sultanate of Rum which the Mongols  unknowingly  obliterated in a punitive expedition . They just came in for a slap  because   of a small ...
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Genghis-Khan (Part 7), Georgia, the country that never was

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This post is following the last 6 ones. Make sure to read Genghis-Khan full history in part 1- 6  of his adventures.     Let’s  talk about Georgia, bet you  didn’t  saw this one coming.  In our history they are remembered  as the bullied kid of Anatolia and pushed around by the  Ottomans and the  Russians, mor e  on them later. What if I told you that without Genghis -K han, they could have been a major power .  Yep,  that’s  right, after the ru le of  Q ueen Tamar III, this  Christian   m ountain kingdom was on the verge of starting a golden age and to play with the big boys. And all  of this was  utterly destroyed  by the Mongols, and like  the rest of the  Middle-East ,  Georgia never recovered. This  wouldn’t  be the last nascent power that the Mongols crushed in their infancy, Europe got like  two to three  of these.      We’ll  ...
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