From an insignificant tribal clan, the Mongols seemed to come out of nowhere to rule over the greatest empire in the world, before disappearing just as quickly three centuries later. Their lands reached out across the Mediterranean to the Pacific from the Arabian Desert in the south to the tundra of Northern Russia and from the forests of Poland to the mountains of China. At the empire’s height, the Mongols controlled a staggering 12 million square miles of territory. But what was it like to live under their governance? How did they treat their subjects, and just why did they almost hunt owls to the edge of extinction? Welcome to Medieval Madness.

00:00 Introduction
00:50 Rise
02:02 Loved to Death
04:27 Conquest
05:55 Threat
08:17 Arts and Culture
09:59 Decline and Fall

Narrated by James Wade
Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe
Edited by Jamit Productions

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