#207 - Mongol 16: Assassin's Creed

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 12 January 2021

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Following the destruction of the Khwarazmian Empire in 1221, the Mongol Empire's appetite for conquest to the west is whetted. It will take a few Great Khans to kick it off, but with the accession of Möngke to the throne in 1251, the way will be laid bare - to be led by his brother Hülegü Khan. The only thing standing between him and the beating heart of Islam is a ragged band of heretics scattered across the mountain fortresses of northern Persia - a group known as the Nizari Isma'ili... or more infamously: the Assassins. Time Period Covered: 765-1257 CE Major Historical Figures: Mongol Empire: Möngke Khaghan [r. 1251-1259] Hülegü Ilkhan [r. 1251-1265] General Ket-Buqa (Noyan) [d. 1260] Nizari Isma'ili: Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq [702-765] Hassan-i Sabbah [1050-1124] Imam Jalal al-Din Hassan [1187-1221] Imam Ala al-Din Muhammad III [1211-1255] Imam Rukn al-Din Khurshah [1230-1256] Other: Brother Matthew of Paris [1200-1259] Friar William of Rubruck [1220-1293] Ata-Malik Juvayni [1226-1283] Rashid al-Din Hamadani [1247-1318] Major Sources Cited: Al-Din, Rashid (tr. John Andrew Boyle). The Successors of Genghis Khan. Daftary, Farhad. The Isma’ilis: Their History and Doctrines. Hillenbrand, Robert. “Propaganda in the Mongol ‘World History’” in British Academy Review, issue 17 (March 2011). Hodgson, M. G. S. “The Isma’ili State” in The Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. 5: The Saljuq and Mongol Periods. Jamal, Nadia Eboo. Surviving the Mongols: Nizari Quhistani and the Continuity of Ismaili Tradition in Persia. Marozzi, Justin. Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood. Paris, Matthew of (tr. John Allen Giles). Chronica Majora (Matthew Paris’s English History From the Year 1235 to 1273, Volume 1). Saunders, J.J. The History of the Mongol Conquests. van Ruysbroeck, Willem (tr. W. W. Rockhill & Peter Jackson). The journey of William of Rubruck to the eastern parts of the world, 1253-55, as narrated by himself, with two accounts of the earlier journey of John of Pian del Carpine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.0	The Assassin's Creed.
1:00.0	The Assassin's Captain causes their young men to be taught diverse languages and sends
1:06.4	them out into other kingdoms to serve the kings thereof.
1:10.8	To the end of that, when the time requires it, each king's servant may kill him by poison or otherwise.
1:17.0	If, after slaying a king, the servant makes good his escape to his own land.
1:23.2	He is rewarded with honors, riches, and dignities.
1:27.2	If he is taken and put to death, he is worshipped in his own country
1:31.0	as a martyr.
1:33.4	From Friar Felix Fabri, Evagatorium Antera Sante Arabia at Egypti Peragonacionum, published
1:41.7	Circa 1484.
1:45.0	In the year in which Ogdenay Khan bade farewell to this life, he had sent messengers to summon
1:50.0	Goyuk.
1:51.4	In compliance with this command, Goyuk turned back, but before his arrival,
1:56.2	fate's inevitable decree was carried out and no opportunity was given for Father and
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