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+// analysis of the socio-cultural and socio-economic circumstances before, during and after 
+// Genghis Khan's rise to power and the unification of the Greater Mongolian Empire,
+// subsequent social and governemental reforms, with a period focus on c. ~1155-1260 CE, 
+// following through the death of Mongke Khan.
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+// analysis of the early stages of the collapse of the Greater Mongolian Empire into 
+// four individual primary Great Khanates, beginning c. 1290 CE before the death of 
+// Kublai Khan with a "roadmap" of how the power vacuum left by Kublai Khan's death
+// was a "ticking time bomb" due to the pre-existing socio-cultural and socio-economic
+// situations of the Greater Mongolian Empire.
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+// analysis of the military tactics and tradition of the Greater Mongolian Empire,
+// as well as the lasting cultural impact the military history of the GME left on
+// the world, with a specific analysis on the continued impact of GME military 
+// traditions, tactics and aesthetics have had and continue to have on modern pop-culture.
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 * __Run the launcher, elevate to admin privledges if prompted.__
 
 ## Contributing ##
-Contributions are welcome, MSVC 2015 is currently used to build release DLLs, and is therefore the recommended IDE.
+Contributions are welcome, MSVC 2019 with build tools is currently used to build release DLLs, and is therefore the recommended IDE.
 If you are not sure what you want to work on take a look at the [bug tracker](https://github.com/Project-Cartographer/H2Codez/issues).
 ### Compiling ###
 * Clone and build the MSVC solution, if the toolkit is installed in an unusual location you might need to change the output directory.