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Episode 81
Published 3 years, 7 months ago
Description
In 751 A.D., the forces of Tang China, led by a Korean general, met a distant foe on a battlefield in what is now Kyrgyzstan: the Muslims of the Abbasid Caliphate.
What resulted was a key turning point in human history, though one seldom appreciated in the Western world.