What if the Mongols Conquered Europe?

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]And for the Europeans, we can't, it's hard for us to fathom what the Mongols represented to the Europeans, to the minds of the Europeans. This army that came out of nowhere. You know, I mean, for centuries, it's it's it's almost the end of the Crusades. They've been for 200 years in Europe has been fighting this holy war with the Muslims in the in the in the Near East. And then this phantom army comes out of nowhere and decimates Islam, something that Europe couldn't do for two centuries.

[00:00:29]And who are these guys? This this cavalry that's just conquering the world, and they were scared. And they And the And the Mongols nearly did it. I mean, they nearly and they would have taken Europe except for the Great Khan died back in Karakorum, and all the armies turned around cuz all the generals wanted to be the next Khan. So, they stopped their advance on Europe, and they raced back to Mongolia. So, that one death saved Western civilization. So, the West is saved by a dynastic competition between the proto successors of the Great Khan. If he had lived, and then the they'd gone forward, they might have conquered all of Europe, and we we'd have have a very different history.

[00:01:06]>> Yeah, they they were in Poland, they were in uh Austria. I mean, they were on the they were at the gates of of of Western >> [music]