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Hello and welcome to the third episode in our series on Jingas Khan.

We left you with Jingis and his army having swept

into China and sacked Beijing amid scenes of mass slaughter. He now rules over a vast empire and sits

at the head of the most ferocious fighting force the world has ever seen. But his thirst,

a need for conquest, remains. Jing his thirst and need for conquest remains.

Chingis is a man of vast ambition with a lot of mouths to feed,

and his army needs to be kept busy.

It's time to go west. From Wondry and Gollhanger, I'm Peter Frankapan.

I'm Afwa Hersch.

And this is Legacy, the show that tells the lives of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived,

and asks if they have the reputation that they deserve.

Music and asks if they have the reputation that they deserve. This is Chingis Khan, episode three, Sackings and Slaughter. sacking and slaughter.

It's now 12-16, and I mean the year rather than the time, and the Mongol army marches into the neighbouring territory of Karakitai, a once powerful state that has fallen into disarray. It's right

for the taking, and take it is what Chinggis does. In today's terms, we're talking actually

about places you're very familiar with in modern life, Peter,

the south of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Western China. It divides the Mongol

empire from the Jueresmian Empire. It's the hashtag Silk Roads at their sort of height. There's

these connectivities across Eurasia. This is going to be a short version,

by the way. So in the 7th century, a new voice and a new force, the Aquarian Empire, comes out of

the Hegears, out of the Arabian Peninsula, and creates a vast empire that fans out into

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