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I love history but can you do something to the syntax portion of the video? It doesn’t make sense saying “nine zero troops”. And there are many instances of such glitches…
Genghis Khan conquered the Western Liao Empire (Khitan 1124-1218) in Xinjiang in 1218, and then went to war with Khwarazm. Before Genghis Khan's death (1227), the Han Chinese (Song) and the Mongols were military allies and did not go to war. After the Mongols destroyed the Western Xia (Dangxiang) and Jin (Jurchen), they went to war with the Han Chinese in 1234. After 45 years and hundreds of battles, in 1279, the Han Chinese surrendered to Kublai Khan after receiving security guarantees.
It's a rather simplified account. For one, the concept of "Han Chinese" didn't exist at that time, and neither the Mongols nor the Sinitics themselves referred to the inhabitants of the Southern Song as Han. Secondly, while the ruling Zhao family of the Southern Song was undoubtedly Sinitic, many of their subjects were of native Tai-Kradai and Hmong-Mien descent.
The map of SE Asia isn't correct. It did not all belong to Khmer. At that time there were numerous kingdoms on the Indochinese peninsula, but the major ones were Khmer (ruled over modern Cambodia and much of Thailand as well as parts of Laos), Dai Viet (ruled over Northern Vietnam), Champa (ruled over Central and Southern Vietnam), plus a bunch of Mon states ruling over much of Burma and Northwestern Thailand, with the largest of them being Haripunjaya. And the Dali kingdom in Yunnan was an independent kingdom and not a part of Khmer.
