Kwarezm

 

At last, I learned where and what was Kwarezm. It was Central Asia - today Turkestan/Afghanistan - peopled by Persians. They spoke Persian. In fact, it was Persia. Very large and developed cities: Merv, Bukhara, Kabul, etc. Then the Mongol savages arrived and exterminated the population. Why? Because Mongols bred horses, ate horses, drank mare's mild, and waged war on horses, they measured wealth in the number of horses owned. The horses eat grass. Cultivated, irrigated land grew no grass, it was worthless. The population too was worthless, so they divided them into groups of 400 and assigned one Mongol soldier to kill the 400. They killed them like they used to slaughter sheep - one deep cut on the neck. Mongol nomads knew how to deal with sheep and soldiers completed their assignments before sunset. 800 years after Merv had not been repopulated and it is a UNESCO site.