When the Mongols Turned Back

Genghis Khan was literally 300 miles from Vienna when he received word that his Great Khan

had died. If he hadn't turned back, the entire trajectory of human history

changes. Europe had no defense against Mongol tactics. Their cavalry crushed everything.

Within months, Germany falls, then France, then England. The Renaissance

never happens because the Mongols erase the Catholic Church's power structure. Democracy as we

know it doesn't exist. Instead of London and Paris shaping the modern world,

it's Karakorum and Sarai. The Americas get discovered by Mongol ships sailing west.

Your entire life, language, government, everything traces back to the steppes.