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Podcast: Age of Conquest: A Kings and Generals Podcast
Episode: History of the Mongols: Jebe and Subutai
Description: "And thus, for our sins God put misunderstanding into us, and a countless number of people perished, and there was lamentation and weeping and grief throughout towns and villages... And the Tatars turned back from the river Dnieper, and we know not whence they came, nor where they hid themselves again; God knows whence he fetched them against us for our sins." So ends the section in the Chronicle of Novgorod which describes the first encounter between the Rus' and the Mongols, the famous Kalka River battle of 1223. Perhaps the most...