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In honor of the show Vikings coming back on the 28th of this month I was wondering what is your favorite barbarian invaders? The Huns? The Visigoths? The Turks? The Goths? The Mongols? The Vikings? What did they do that you like about them? Bring about the end of the Roman Empire? Largest...

Most of us probably know how their genocidal conquest of Khwarezm was largely a result of the Persians' appaling treatment of Mongol emissaries, and how without such an atrocity the region, if attacked at all, would probably have been spared the excessive brutalities of OTL's campaign. I'm...

Let's say that for whatever reason the Mongols never unite or that if they do, they simply decide to leave the region alone. Would the region be more fertile today, or would desertification inevitably make it what it is in the present? Would this allow for Baghdad to return to its former glory...

The challenge is have an actual Mongol royal house rule at least one European state. It doesn't have to exclusively be a direct Borjigin line. Bonus if they managed to survive to the present day.

What are the best chances of the Southern Song dynasty to survive the Mongol invasion and live in coexistence with the fledgling Yuan dynasty in the north? How will this affect Asian history?

Assume that Ögedei Khan doesn't die prematurely, and leads a massive invasion across Europe, successfully estabilishing some sort of "european khanate". The state's borders shall encompass all of OTL Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, benelux, Italy without Sicily, Slovenia, Croatia...

What if Mongke Khan, leader of the Mongol Empirefrom 1251 to 1259, had lived a bit longer? Say, to the age of 60 or 65? It is often stated that his death was to blame for the mongol defeat at the Battle of Ain Jalut (1260) against the mamluks, since the khan's death forced many mongol troops to...

Instead of sacking cities, he is more likely to preserve and build them Instead of slaughtering people, he is more likely to grow new population and get more talented people to strength the empire How's that?Can he still be seen as a great person?

What if the mongols had failed to conquer the mountainous region of Yunnan, contemporaneously controlled by the Dali kingdom? I hear that the mongols were lucky to conquer such a place. Would the Dali kingdom remain independent for the rest of foreseeable history or is it likely that the...

What are the chances of the Mongols getting the idea of using firearms while on horseback, and develop tactics based on such idea? How would this affect Mongol warfare and their campaigns of conquest?

Okay, so here's the deal. In 1357, Algirdas and Kęstutis, the leaders of the "diarchy" of Lithuania, went into negotiations with the Pope and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV on accepting Christianity and ending the hundred years' war between the Western crusaders and the Lithuanians. Of course...

So, suppose Genghis Khan dies in his pre-adolescence, yet handwavium allows another clan to unify the mongols at about the same time frame, this time under Nestorian Christianity rather than Tengriism. Most of Mongolia's population converts, and they go on huge conquest sprees like OTL. However...

Scenario: The Komnenid empire survives briefly longer, with Manuel winning Myriokephalon and Alexios II succeeding at a later age. There is no Fourth Crusade, so the Byzantines are worth conquering. The Mongol conquests proceed as historical, except the Byzantines are in one piece. Even though...

The Mongols were a very war like people who almost set the "modern" world back by a couple hundred years as they were better conquerors that civilization builders. Their destructive ways made the Middle East and Asia backwards compared to Europe with them destroying libraries and other...