The City of Ordos (Chinese: 鄂尔多斯市; Pinyin: È'ěrduōsī shì) is located in the southwestern Ordos plateau, in Inner Mongolia, China. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2000x1786, 676 KB) Description: Inner Mogolia Maps Source: Date: On Aug. ... Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: 汉è¯æ‹¼éŸ³; Traditional Chinese: 漢語拼音; Hanyu Pinyin: , lit. ... Ordos can refer to: the Ordos Desert in Inner Mongolia House Ordos, a fictional organisation appearing in Dune spin-offs This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Inner Mongolia (Mongolian: ᠥᠪᠦᠷ ᠮᠣᠨᠺᠤᠯᠤᠨ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠺᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠣᠷᠤᠨ r Mongghul-un bertegen Jasaqu Orun; Chinese: 内蒙古自治区; Hanyu Pinyin: N i Měnggǔ Z qū) is an Autonomous Region of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
Its total area is 87,428km2 and has a population of 1.28 million. It has seven Banners and one county-level city under its jurisdiction - Dongsheng, also its capital. A banner (Mongolian: khoshuu, Chinese: 旗, pinyin: qí) is an administrative division of Inner Mongolia. ...
Baghdad was conquered and sacked in 1258, with the city's Christians spared, and the Abbasid caliph killed.
The closest modern analogue is the modern aircraft carrier, with its ability to bring an entire city of warriors next door to an opponent on short notice, strike, and retreat, without pursuit.
If the offer was refused, the Mongols would sack the city, execute the entire population save a handful of skilled workers, and burn the city and the surrounding fields to the ground.
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