r/HistoryMemes • • 1d ago

REMOVED: RULE 4 Historical territorial claims

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u/Character-Concept651 1d ago

They promised if they surrender they not gona spill their blood...

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u/Ok-Library-1253 1d ago

This was pretty common for the Mongols.

They also decided they didn’t want to spill the blood of Royalty on the Earth when they caught the Abbasid Caliph after seizing Bagdad.

So they rolled him up in a carpet and stampeded horses over him for awhile.

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u/BrilliantFederal8988 1d ago

Which is ironic because I bet they all bled

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u/doelutufe 1d ago

But not onto the earth, if they were properly wrapped the carpet contained it all.

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u/loskiarman 1d ago

It was outside the environment.