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The Mongol conquests resulted in widespread and well-documented death and destruction throughout Eurasia, as the Mongol army invaded hundreds of cities and killed millions of people. One estimate is that approximately 10% of the contemporary global population, amounting to some 37.75–60 million people, was killed either during or immediately ...
The Mongol invasions and conquests took place during ... it is possible that between 20 and 57 million people were killed between 1206 and 1405 during the various ...
It was reported that each Mongol soldier was allotted between three and four hundred people to kill; the contemporary chronicler Ibn al-Athir estimated the number of deaths at 700,000, while the chronicler Ata-Malik Juvayni, writing a few decades later, recorded that a cleric spent thirteen days counting the dead and arrived at a figure of ...
Dominican martyrs killed by Mongols during the Mongol invasion of Poland in 1260. Western researcher R. J. Rummel estimated that 30 million people were killed by the Mongol Empire. Other researchers estimate that as many as 80 million people were killed, with 50 million deaths being the middle ground.
The Mongols retreated, having gathered their intelligence, which was the purpose of the reconnaissance-in-force. A full-scale invasion by Batu Khan followed, with most of Kievan Rus' overran in 1237–1238. [3] The Mongols captured Kiev in 1240 and moved west into Hungary and Poland. [3]
Thousands of Kyrgyz people massacred; 1220–1223 The Mongol conquest of Cumania: Mongol Empire: Kipchaks: Victory 1220–1238 ... 60,000 Kalmyks killed; 1723–1726
Historical accounts contend that Merv's entire population, including refugees, who had previously fled from other besieged towns of the empire, were killed. Mongols are reputed to have slaughtered 700,000 people, [1] [2] [3] while Persian historian, Juvayni, puts the figure at more than 1,300,000, [4] making it one of the bloodiest captures of ...
[16] [4] Khurshah's relatives who were kept at Qazvin were killed by Qaraqai Bitikchi, while Ötegü-China summoned the Nizaris of Quhistan to gatherings and slaughtered about 12,000 people. Möngke's order reflects an earlier order by Chingiz Khan. [31] Around 100,000 people are estimated to have been killed. [16]