I don’t understand how westerners classify Mongolians and Persians as barbarians and Vikings as honourable and brave warriors. Were Vikings and Greeks more civilised than Persians or Mongolians or better in warfare. Weren’t the western warriors defeated at the Crusades at the hands of Sallaudin? Hope our text books bring out the actual facts of history than merely printing Western thoughts.
Karthik asks a pertinent question while reviewing Sergei Bordrov’s The Mongol
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Polar
Oct 19th, 2008 at 4:55 pm | #
In Britain, about the only things the Vikings are known for are the raping and pillaging. It’s rather recently that people have started to see beyond that aspect.