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I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I'd like to take this chance to How to Take Over the World. This is Ben Wilson. Welcome to this

end notes episode of Genghis Khan. And if this is your first time listening to an end notes

episode on How to Take Over the World, what it essentially is, is I take a lot of the notes that I

had of stuff that I just found interesting and I smash it all into this episode at the end

because maybe it didn't fit into the main narrative. It was just too much of a detour to make

sense as I was going through the full story. So it's just a bunch of fun stuff that I found

interesting and maybe some other narratives that are tangential or related to the main story but

didn't make their way in. So in this episode,

I'm going to be talking about the Mongol invasion of Europe and what happened there. Why, I think it would make a terrific horror movie. That's this phenomenal story. I'll actually start with that.

And then I'll talk about Genghis Khan and his red hair. If he's a Mongol, where did this red

hair come from? I'll talk about one of my favorite competitions of all time, this religious competition that the Mongols had between Buddhists, Muslims, and Christians, and who won when they put them in competition with one another.

And lots of just interesting little tidbits about the Mongols.

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Okay. Okay. With that, let's get into it. Starting with the Mongol invasion of Europe.

So the Mongol invasion of Europe starts off as a sideshow. So essentially, Genghis Khan is invading Central Asia, the Quarism, and one of his generals says, hey, I'm hearing these rumors about

these guys over in Russia.

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