(February 28, 2012 at 2:35 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Well, the Mamelukes were, as their name said, slaves.
They became masters afterwards, but the later mamelukes of...thin bloodlines like Caucasians(Georgians and the like), spelled doom for their dynasty. The Ottomans asserted control over their rule later on, but foolishly left them in their place. Most were probably tyrannical landlords after all.
I think there downfall was more down to the corrupting influence of power and the distraction of harems rather than the dilution of their bloodline.
In fact genetically it is better to be as unrelated as possible to produce healthy progeny.
The royal familes of europe are a good example of where inbreeding can take you with a larger than usual crop of rare diseaces including insanity, haemophilia and prophoryia.
Quote:One of the most famous example of a genetic disorder aggravated by royal family intermarriage was the House of Habsburg, which inmarried particularly often. Famous in this case is the Habsburger (Unter) Lippe (Habsburg jaw/Habsburg lip/"Austrian lip") (mandibular prognathism), typical for many Habsburg relatives over a period of six centuries.[24] The condition progressed through the generations to the point that the last of the Spanish Habsburgs, Charles II of Spain, could not properly chew his food.[25]
Besides the jaw deformity, Charles II also had a huge number of other genetic physical, intellectual, sexual, and emotional problems. It is speculated that the simultaneous occurrence in Charles II of two different genetic disorders: combined pituitary hormone deficiency and distal renal tubular acidosis could explain most of the complex clinical profile of this king, including his impotence/infertility which in the last instance led to the extinction of the dynasty.[26]
Another famous genetic disease that circulated among European royalty was hemophilia. Because the progenitor, Queen Victoria, was in a first cousin marriage, it is often mistakenly believed that the cause was consanguinity. However, this disease is generally not aggravated by cousin marriages, although rare cases of hemophilia in girls (though not including Victoria) are thought to result from the union of hemophiliac men and their cousins.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
