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rulers of the area, since they'd won the last battle, and they did send a few raiding parties to loot and pillage, but they generally left the fortified places alone, and they didn't set up any kind of a permanent administration in
Palestine (which is what's necessary to deem something "conquered" as
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Communications went back and forth between the leaders of Europe and the
Mongols for most of the late 1200s. The communications generally went like this: The Europeans asked the Mongols to convert to Christianity. The Mongols told the Europeans to submit. This went back and forth through various
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Some of the
Christian countries in the path of the Mongols faced an unpleasant choice: Submit to Mongol overlordship, or try to fight back, lose, and then watch tens of thousands of citizens get brutally slaughtered. The Mongols generally made one request to surrender, and if it wasn't honored,
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In 1299/1300, the
Mongols (with their Christian subjects) were able to briefly capture the cities of Syria from the Muslims. The Muslims retreated their forces south back to Cairo to regroup. The Mongols also retreated most of their forces north, to give the horses better grazing room. This
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an alliance. It's also trying to say that countries such as
Armenia and Antioch "allied" with the Mongols, instead of simply submitting to them. But the truth of the matter is that Armenia and Antioch were Mongol subjects, and that there was never a Franco-Mongol alliance. There were
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letters and ambassadors for decades, but nothing formal was ever agreed to. The few times that coordinated military action was attempted, the forces tended to arrive months apart (if they showed up at all), and they never made any serious military gains.
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About 75% of the way through this process, the
Mongols started joining the party. Their empire had been growing rapidly, and they'd taken over much of the Asian continent and were starting to push into Eastern Europe, and also into the Middle East.
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This was a temporary page used in 2007, acting as a quickref for other editors who were coming up to speed on a POV dispute. The dispute has since been resolved via an
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A few months later (May 1300), the
Muslims regrouped and advanced northwards again, pushing the Mongols all the way back to Iran.
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The article is trying to make the case that the
Mongols may have captured Jerusalem during this "power vacuum" phase. There are
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are generally considered to have lasted from roughly 1099, when the
European Crusaders captured
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take
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they then killed everyone -- men, women, children, even the dogs and cats.
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That's it in a nutshell. If you have questions, let me know. :)
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