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I remember reading that some Mongol generals, upon returning home from their conquests, found that their children were all spoiled brats grown in palaces. So the generals sent their children to a forest, naked, without any supplies, and told them to come back a year later. How much of this is true?

by /u/serdarreddiqt in /r/AskHistorians

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