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The Mongols conquered an awful lot of places, but only with Russia are they used to explain "ingrained culture". Nobody's going to have a seminar about, say, Ir
by bigbillheck 3y ago
The Mongols conquered an awful lot of places, but only with Russia are they used to explain "ingrained culture". Nobody's going to have a seminar about, say, Iran, and say that a large part of the way they are today is because of the Ilkhanate, and even the least-hinged China commentator isn't going to start invoking the Yuan and their permeating influence.
- pixl97 3y agoI mean yea, you can discount anything by comparing things that are not alike. One thing to note about Russia is it is not defensible in standard sense of it's hard to cross this river or mountain. This lead to Russia making distance it's defense. You go and capture a bunch of different peoples with no relations to each other and use them as a meat shield if anyone attacks. Meanwhile you want for the harsh winter to wear them out. But this also comes as a cost, you cannot allow any of these outlying territories to gain too much power or they could become a threat to Moscow, hence you tend to see a massive amount of Russia under developed and depopulated.
- bigbillheck 3y agoWhat makes it not alike?