Khwarazmian Empire
1077–1231 · Event
The last great power of pre-Mongol Central Asia — whose massacre of Genghis Khan's trade caravan at Otrar in 1218 brought annihilation on the whole region.
On these timelines: The Silk Road & the Steppe, Master, Persia and Iran
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