34 Ruthless Facts About Genghis Khan

Havana Moon said:
Yea, you wouldn't have wanted to piss him off
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No you certainly didn’t. During the Kwazeramid (sp?) conquest there’s story after story of mass executions outside the cities where one approaching would see three massive mounds. One of men’s heads, ones of women’s and one of children’s.

One legend is that after the Kahn defeated a city He ordered the execution of half a million citizens. He only had 20,000 soldiers. Each soldier was ordered to kill 25 civilians and it was to be done in an hour and it was.
 
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Mott the Hoople said:
No you certainly didn’t. During the Kwazeramid (sp?) conquest there’s story after story of mass executions outside the cities where one approaching would see three massive mounds. One of men’s heads, ones of women’s and one of children’s.

One legend is that after the Kahn defeated a city He ordered the execution of half a million citizens. Each soldier was to kill 25 civilians and it was to be done in an hour and it was.
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Billy thinks he is the dog's bollocks!
 
The amazing thing is Ghengis Kahn was illiterate and the Mongols few in numbers attacked civilizations far more advanced technologically with huge populations and vast armies. Yet he defeated them all, adopted their knowledge, technology to improve his armies. Using speed, superior organization and logistics, psychology, superior strategy and the inhuman but flawless logic that dead people can’t rebel he won battle after battle and war after war.
 
Havana Moon said:
Billy thinks he is the dog's bollocks!
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He was the greatest conqueror and mass murderer in human history but was an amazingly honest person. Like Sulla on steroids. If you remained loyal to him and paid your taxes you benefited greatly from the peace and prosperity that followed a Mongol conquest. But if a City or region was disloyal he’d depopulate the region to put the fear to God in those who did not rebel.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
The amazing thing is Ghengis Kahn was illiterate and the Mongols few in numbers attacked civilizations far more advanced technologically with huge populations and vast armies. Yet he defeated them all, adopted their knowledge, technology to improve his armies. Using speed, superior organization and logistics, psychology, superior strategy and the inhuman but flawless logic that dead people can’t rebel he won battle after battle and war after war.
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If you ever get to travel around Eastern Europe, you can see people who look Asian, courtesy of the Mongols. This is specially true of Poland.
 
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Mott the Hoople said:
He was the greatest conqueror and mass murderer in human history but was an amazingly honest person. Like Sulla on steroids. If you remained loyal to him and paid your taxes you benefited greatly from the peace and prosperity that followed a Mongol conquest. But if a City or region was disloyal he’d depopulate the region to put the fear to God in those who did not rebel.
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Sounds a bit like Don Corleone.
 
Havana Moon said:
If you ever get to travel around Eastern Europe, you can see people who look Asian, courtesy of the Mongols. This is specially true of Poland.
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I tell you what. If American men knew in 1945 what gorgeous women East Europeans are there never would have been a Cold War. I've met a couple of East European women who worked for my wife as college interns. One from Hungary and the other from the Ukraine. The Hungarian girl was a full figured sex bomb with wavy auburn hair and the Ukranian was a stunning slim long legged goddess with long blonde hair. Two completely different looks but both very attractive women.
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Havana Moon said:
Sounds a bit like Don Corleone.
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On a vast scale. Even greater than Hitler or Stalin. Maybe not Mao in total #'s but as a percent of the Chinese population Ghengis killed a higher percentage. And at that time no more than around 500,000 Mongols existed. How could some one be so ruthless? They are out there though.
 
Threedee said:
The sack of Baghdad in 1258 is considered the greatest atrocity of the Middle Ages.
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It was shortly after that the same Mongol forces had their asses handed to them by the Egyptian Mamalukes. The Mongols did not do so well against society’s with an elite warrior culture. The Egyptian Mamelukes and Japanese Samurai did very well against the Mongols. So did the Koreans. The German Templars and Tuetones after initial set backs did well against them too.
 
I suppose it all depends on what side you are on, really. After all, quite a lot of people think highly of mass murderers like Alexander 'the Great' and the god Julius Caesar because they were literate - or even Trump because they are illiterate too.
 
iolo said:
I suppose it all depends on what side you are on, really. After all, quite a lot of people think highly of mass murderers like Alexander 'the Great' and the god Julius Caesar because they were literate - or even Trump because they are illiterate too.
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I've never been a fan of either, because they subverted the values of the societies that they led.
 
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