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by jjjjj55555 836 days ago
I'm not the person you posed the question to, nor am I challenging what you're saying.

However, it was my understanding that cities that resisted them would sometimes be destroyed en masse. They didn't need to kill them all with bows and arrows. They would round everyone up and bury them in a hole or execute them.

Hulegu himself put the death toll in Baghdad at 200,000. I think that widescale murder was entirely possible at the time.

It would be difficult to name ethnicities or cultures that were wiped out, precisely because they were wiped out, wouldn't it?