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The Mongols were a very war like people who almost set the "modern" world back by a couple hundred years as they were better conquerors that civilization builders. Their destructive ways made the Middle East and Asia backwards compared to Europe with them destroying libraries and other scientific holds. The only thing that was "good" that ever came out of their conquests was the revival of the Silk Road and the introduction of Asia to Europe, but even this had it's downsides (Bubonic plague). But what if this never happened? What if the man who came to be known as Genghis Khan simply never rose to power or in more blatant terms, what if the Mongol Empire never existed?
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