![]() He gave Kublai an army of a hundred thousand, but at that time, a single Chinese city contained more people than the entire Mongol nation. ![]() Astonishingly, Mongke sent his academic brother to conquer the hardest military target of the era-China. Yet what was Mongke to do with his brother Kublai, the ink-stained scholar who had never left the city? Kublai dressed like a noble and had no experience of large-scale assaults. Mongke began his reign with a great slaughter and put his followers and family in positions of power. When the other lines of succession failed, Kublai's older brother Mongke rose to lead the empire, a man who aimed to be another Genghis-traditional and utterly ruthless. He spent his formative years as a scholar in the city of Karakorum, learning languages and philosophies rather than the tactics of war. ![]() Kublai Borjigin was a grandson of Genghis Khan, but never expected to inherit the Mongol empire. ![]()
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