The Mongols wiped out entire cities, sparing no one. In the Persian city of Nishapur, in 1221, an estimated 1.7 million people were slaughtered. That same year in Merv, an estimated 1.3 million were killed at the hands of the Mongols, and in Meru Chahjan
The Mongols
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