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Although they only launched small raids on Polish lands, they plundered the country twice. They burned Kraków and Sandomierz, wiped out the flower of knighthood from Lesser Poland and Silesia. In the Battle of Legnica, they killed the most powerful Piast prince of the time - Henry the Pious. The Mongols created an empire four times larger than the Roman Empire! They conquered lands from China and Korea through Iran, the Holy Land to Ruthenia and Hungary. Was it the most terrifying and at the same time effective army in the history of the world? Henry the Pious was just one of a long line of rulers who paid for the clash with the Mongols with their lives. The Tartarii - as the invaders were called by their contemporaries - had been crushing one country after another for decades and created the second largest empire in history! How did it happen that the steppe army became invincible? Were the Mongols really such bloody monsters as they were written about in Europe? Was the fate of Henry the Pious sealed and the prince had to die at their hands? And why, finally, with a shattered Poland at their feet, did they not incorporate it – like Ruthenia – into their empire? Łukasz Starowieyski will talk about the mortally fearsome Mongol Empire in the podcast from the series "1000 Years. X-Ray". His guest is Dr. Tomasz Borowski from the Polish History Museum. Chapters: 00:00 Invasion of Poland 02:20 Power, panic and evil spirits 17:25 Destination Europe 26:40 Winter attack 36:24 Battle of Legnica We invite you to subscribe to our profiles. The program was implemented as part of the task: continuation and expansion of the multimedia information and educational project - History Portal Dzieje.pl