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Hello and welcome to the history of China. Episode 170, stay of execution. Last time we left the besieged Song Dynasty round about the death of the second great con of the Mongols, Ogaday, in 1241.

As I intoned then, this left to the Mongol Empire in a strange state of flux.

So today we're going to begin with a general overview of what was going on in both Mongolia and song China that would result in most of the 1240s being a curious period of relative peace

between the two otherwise warring empires. Then we'll get back into the action when

Monka at last assumes the title of Great Khan.

And just as a note as usual you can expect this to be covered in significantly more detail

from the Mongol perspective when we get to it in the bonus episodes.

But until then, consider this at least a primer so that we're all on roughly the same page.

O'Get Khan, a man infamous for his alcoholism and incessant drunkenness, died as a result most likely of an extended drinking binge that caused his body to at last give out and fail.

There was, however, considerable controversy at the time

that he might have actually been poisoned by his youngest sister, Al-Atun, an

accusation for which she was put to death by Ogdenay's followers without trial, and for which they were

subsequently condemned as having murdered an innocent girl solely to seize her lands.

Ogdenay would be the third of Jengis Khan's four sons by his Queen Borte to die.

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