Mongols

Mm-hmm.

Uh, i- in my head, the Asslín are, are, if you would compare them to some kind of people in, in history or literature, for me, they are Mongol-ish.

Mm-hmm.

And this, this tribe of Asslín have been very friendly to you, and I mean, they, they want some help with, with the chopping some fireworks, with pulling the ropes to, to, you know, uh, set up the yurt.

There are in central India wild and primitive tribes utterly different in race and language from the bulk of the Indian population.

There are descendants of Arab and Afghan and Mongol and Persian invaders.

There are Dravidians in the south.

And there are Aryan Hindus who together with the great mass of mixed descent constitute the Hindu majority of the population.

China proper included, besides the thickly peopled lowlands, a backcountry of hills and mountains, little cultivated but stored well with unworked mineral treasures.

All in all, it was a country half as big as the United States is today.

But around China proper lay dependent provinces, Xinjiang, Manchuria, Mongolia, Tibet, which in themselves made up an area as large as the United States, and, besides, the neighboring kingdoms of Korea, Annam and Tonkin, and Burma, and even the island empire of Japan paid tribute and homage, or had occasionally done so, to the great empire from which all had obtained no small part of their culture.

Surrounded by vassals and tributaries, China was truly a giant, a giant grown drowsy in centuries of unquestioned supremacy.

And eventually, you know, they lost control.

And it's really funny because the way it's described is like that the Mongols basically like they gave up kind of commodity-backed money.

They went to like purely paper money.

So the currency hyperinflated.

There was a Greek one by Simeon, son of Seth, at the close of the eleventh century, and a Hebrew one made by Rabbi Joel, a learned Jew, probably a native of Spain, during the twelfth century.

There were translations also into Syriac, Turkish, Afghan, Malay, Mongol, and Latin.

Of modern European languages, the German, fourteen eighty-three, seems to have been the earliest to receive it, followed by the Spanish, fourteen ninety-eight, the English, fifteen seventy, the Danish, sixteen eighteen, the Dutch, sixteen twenty-three, the Swedish, seventeen forty-three.

The Arabic version was edited by Baron de Sacy, Paris, eighteen sixteen, and his edition is the basis of later translations.

Like, we hate you.

Like, these things were here a thousand years through, like, thick and thin and through constant battles, and even the Mongols didn't do anything to them, and now you're blowing that up.

We hate you.

And then, like, you know, it was easier to put a coalition together to destroy them after 9-11, in part because of that.

He's carrying the torch for Storm of the Soul.

I would say Bryn Hammond and Daryl R.A. Keogh both write very cool sort of Mongolian riffing.

Sword and Sorcery, both for me and others that worked doing that.

June Walker Parker, like you mentioned earlier, does an incredible two-tone act between the heavy, interesting, you know, sort of trans-centric stories starting at Sarda, and then the very whimsical, wrestling-infused Some Place in Sorcery, which has absolutely got another book coming down the line.

Maybe it was the Crusaders during the Crusades.

Maybe it was the Mongols during the time period after the sack of Baghdad.

It was the French and the British during the brief period of colonialism when there was actual colonialism in the Middle East.

But there's always this assumption that the minorities can't do it on their own because that would threaten the narrative that Islam, when it's in a land and has conquered a land, is and must always be and remain superior and supreme in that land.

In Galicia itself, Ukrainians can be divided into three groups, owing to slight climatic conditions boiki lemki hudsels when prince waldemar of denmark was guest prisoner of michael theodore the first of the romanovs he had occasion to speak to the few europeans whose misfortune it was to visit the court of russia and they told him that the russian nobility boasted of direct descent from the greeks This, of course, is ridiculous.

The Russians, that is, the great Russians, the Muscovites, are partly Finns, partly Mongols, and partly Slavs, and if one of the two nations can claim more ancient origin, that race is that one which inhabits the Ukraine.

in the twelfth century the ukrainian princes possessed still a good deal of power in europe and at that time the ukraine extending over middle and south russia east galicia down to the lower course of the danube was the largest of all european kingdoms and had a flourishing trade i said that the ukrainians offered the purest type of slavs What are the Slavs? End of Introduction Read by Kerry Adams, Your Book Voice At Mesa, Arizona, on the 12th of July, 2022

THE PLACE OF THE UKRAINIANS AMONG THE SLAVE RACES The Ukrainians belong to one of the Slav races, which are, in numerical order, Muscovites, or Great Russians, Ukrainians, Ruthenians, and often Malorussians, Poles, White Russians, Serbo-Croats, Czechs, or Bohemians, and Slovaks, Bulgars, Slovenes, and Lusatians.

They knew I was coming.

You've got the Mongol suite, have you?

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

The place is amazing.