User blog comment:Fegaxeyl/Christian Mongols/@comment-1589986-20111006011843/@comment-32656-20111006070649

He didn't have to. Doing it after the conquests has no effect. And doing it beforehand not only makes no sense, but means that there is no effect past them not happening. #2 would be after they lose power in China, #1 is not possible, and The ME conquests came after everything else. Number 4 makes absolutely no sense at all.