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i just found out potatoes didn't exist during the mongol empire ☹️ they really missed out

i really wonder what bedroom in dadu looked like, i can imagine it was like super hybrid of chinese + mongol + central asian architecture with persian elements, sounds comfortable 🥹

guyuk lowk mogging everyone else 😭

i didn't realize calling southern mongolia *checks notes* southern mongolia was considered anything other than simple term of direction, but apparently it gets ccp bootlickers mad

the concept of mongke as dad needs to be explored cause i feel like he was different kind of deadbeat 😭 honestly, i feel like all 3rd gen princes weren't good dads except maybe kublai as always...

ame*ican right wingers favorite catch phrase of this week is "forced cultural assimilation of southern mongols by ccp bad!!" and they'll forget it by next week, it's been happening for years and no one bat an eye but now it's so important apparently 🤔

sinicized qing emperors thought uyghur women were exotic 😭😭😭 you can tell they were green boys in euroasian statecraft cause the script they adopted from mongols was created by uyghurs 500 years ago....

everytime there's actually discussion about nuclear power plant and clean energy in this country, mfs get on facebook and start fearmongering about nonexistent powerplant anf radiation when they can't even tell the difference between biohazard sign and radioactive sign 😭

recently found out about berkes mom whom a random white victorian guy in 19th century fabricated out of thin air cause he couldn't COMPREHEND even after thinking really hard why berke converted to islam... let's all start inserting our ocs into history at this point

i'll never have the level of patience temujin had for the kereits, especially to that sneaky old bastard toghrul... how many time does one have to bend over backwards for an ugly geezer out of pure fillial piety only to get it blown on his face everytime

jamukhas psychotic ass boiled 70 people alive cause his slow ass brother got caught stealing and died... doing all that after most of his people have already defected to temujins side is even crazier 😭 now even less people wanna be on your side! absolutely counterproductive

i never really really realized how much foreigners actually fuck with khorhog (meat cooked with hot stones), i just kinda assumed they looked down on it but it seems to fit right into the "unprocessed authentic diet" trend going on which is funny 😭

for good revenge plot to function, there should be friction, fundamental difference between the two people that puts them at odds at one point.. be it morality, class, culture or external connection but these 2 don't have any of those, just self reinforcing sycophantic loop 😵‍💫

yuan dynasty terligs were ahead of their time because i'm absolutely marveling at this pleated waist band... it literally looks like modern elastic material but every pleat was actually handsewn 700 years ago

some of the ilkhanid miniatures are so cute... this one shows the khan courting, showing an open affection (by touching her chin) and flirting with his khatun while she tries to act modest 😭

anyone have reference for bortes jdgr design....?