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EPISODE · Feb 21, 2023 · 12 MIN

Diaoyucheng: The Siege that Stalled an Empire

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Today we are going to talk about a fortress in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality. With an area of just two and a half square kilometers, it may have saved the European and Arab civilizations due to its resistance against the Mongol Empire in China’s Southern Song Dynasty about 800 years ago.

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