Möngke told Louis he would only rest “when in the power of the everlasting God the entire world, from the sun’s rising to its setting, has become one in joy and in peace.” Geography would be no protection against the Mongol war machine, he warned, for “if, on hearing and understanding the order of the everlasting God, you are unwilling to observe it . . . and say, ‘Our country is far away, our mountains are strong, our sea is broad,’ . . . how can we know what will happen?”
