{"id":56827,"date":"2024-09-03T15:14:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T07:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/?p=56827"},"modified":"2024-09-03T15:14:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T07:14:18","slug":"crushing-the-hashashin-2024-09-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/crushing-the-hashashin-2024-09-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Crushing the Hashashin 2024-09-03"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">One or two short paragraphs today. When people say that Afghanistan is the &#8220;graveyard of empires&#8221;, what do they mean? If backward barbarians like the Mongols under Mongke Khan were able to effectively crush the Assassins in Afghanistan, how is it that more modern, presumably better-led and overall better armies could not?<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1140px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-56827-1\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Crushing-the-hashashin-2024-09-03.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Crushing-the-hashashin-2024-09-03.mp4\">http:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Crushing-the-hashashin-2024-09-03.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Know someone for whom Reading Aloud practice might help him answer similar questions?<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For more details, refer to &#8220;<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"http:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/details-read-aloud-with-grampa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details &#8211; Read Aloud with Grampa!<\/a><\/span>&#8220;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One or two short paragraphs today. When people say that Afghanistan is the &#8220;graveyard of empires&#8221;, what do they mean? If backward barbarians like the Mongols under Mongke Khan were able to effectively crush the Assassins in Afghanistan, how is it that more modern, presumably better-led and overall better armies could not? 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