“The Mongols sent diplomatic caravans to establish an alliance with them, and they responded by massacring them. Twice. Subsequently the region’s population dropped by 90% or so for some reason.”
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“Whoah, whoah, whoah…” Mrs Green stopped Darla in the middle of her presentation. “Really? You couldn’t find the reason why the population dropped? Everyone knows it was the Mongols.”
“There’s no historical evidence for that, Mrs Green,” said Darla. “The Mongols weren’t big on keeping records and survivor accounts could be biased. It could have easily been a rival faction in disguise.”
“The Mongols had motive,” Mrs Green argued. “Their envoys were slaughtered. And following the second offence, the people in that area were almost wiped out.”
“Correlation is not causality, Mrs Green,” Darla argued. “And a counter-argument is that the survivors didn’t like the Mongols anyway and claimed that the deaths were due to them in an attempt to gain allies against them.”
Mrs Green sighed. “Do you have any other evidence for your theories?”
“No more evidence than ‘the Mongols did it’, m’m.”
“I want your sources, of course.”
“I have a bibliography, with page numbers, paragraphs, and ISBN’s.”
“…of course you do…” muttered Mrs Green. “Continue…”
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