Your comment is absolutely unrelated to your quote. The fact that Mongol warfare was quite, uh, violent (which is obviously true) has nothing to do with the fac

Your comment is absolutely unrelated to your quote. The fact that Mongol warfare was quite, uh, violent (which is obviously true) has nothing to do with the fact that Martin's books and especially the TV show have "a cultural vision that is inaccurate, distorting, and bears a very specific relationship to the European past" (which is also obviously true). In fact, I'm even harsher in my opinion, angrily denying all attempts to mark "Game of Thrones" (or even SoIaF) as "historically accurate", because it could be viewed as that only in the most primitive sense, and any somewhat educated audience would be continuously annoyed by the contrary. That is because Martin borrows quite large pieces of historical motives, but unlike Tolkien is unable to elegantly glue them together. And as the devil is in the details the resulting picture makes simply no sense. Calling it grotesque would be even an understatement.