US Politics on Yik Yak | This may be a hot take but ngl it makes me so sad to think of all the Ancient Greek, Roman, Pontic, cappodocian, etc history that was lost with the Mongolian then Turkic conquests of Anatolia and the balkans

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US Politics 13h

This may be a hot take but ngl it makes me so sad to think of all the Ancient Greek, Roman, Pontic, cappodocian, etc history that was lost with the Mongolian then Turkic conquests of Anatolia and the balkans

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Anonymous 13h

Didn’t the Mongols also destroy Baghdad and its legacy as a center of knowledge

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Anonymous

#1 13h

I mean yeah they were the final blow but the house of wisdom and city itself were already a fraction of their original power bc of internal corruption. Still ultimately what led to Europe becoming the western center of science after that

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