EPISODE · Jun 28, 2026 · 2H 59M
Life in Karakorum: The Capital of the Mongol Empire, 1235–1260 | Calm Bedtime History
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In the year 1253, a Franciscan friar named William of Rubruck reached a city of stone walls and felt tents, built on the open grassland where no city had ever stood before. He had travelled five thousand miles from the court of King Louis IX of France to reach Karakorum, the capital of the most powerful empire on earth.
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