(June 3, 2016 at 3:50 am)Constable Dorfl Wrote: Actually no he didn't. For one China was going through one of its regular lperiods of ossification before he invaded, for the other he went west because thecruler of Khwarezm had a trade delegation and embassy he sent to them killed, an aggressive act of war in those days. While I'm not saying Temuchin was all sweetness and light he was simply better than anybody else as a conqueror in his day, and in places like Mongolia he has the reputation of a Charlemagne, for the same reason, he built up his own country, sponsered scholarship and founded places of learning.
Everything I know about Genghis Khan I learned from a multi-part podcast by Dan Carlin. It was interesting, because any time I started to feel like I was the worst person who had ever lived, I could say, "Nope. Genghis Khan. Now THAT was a horrible person."
But you say he was maybe not so bad. Okay. Wow. That sucks for me
I think I'm going to go poke someone in the eye to make myself feel better.
A Gemma is forever.