(September 24, 2014 at 1:37 am)Chuck Wrote:(September 23, 2014 at 10:31 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I'm curious if there is anybody who doubts the existence of Ghenghis Khan? He also lacks primary sources (Nothing contemporary was written about him) has many mythic qualities attached to him and his early life that people don't take seriously historically.
Except the existence of a genghis khan associated with least one nearly mythical quality attributed to him is attested by genetic evidence from modern population along the route of genghis khan's, well, alleged, conquest. We know from these evidence genghis khan belonged to haploground C-M217, and his own particular lineage can be identified by 25 distinctive Y chromosome markers.
The mythical attribute is he slept with another conquered woman every night and personally fathered 10,000 offsprings. The genetic evidence is 30 million men in the world today, mainly from the route genghis khan followed during his conquest, can trace their ancestry one single man with the above described genetic attribute, who lived at the time genghis khan is alleged to have lived. 30 million male offsprings is a unparalleled pool of descendants for a men who lived only 800 years ago. But it could be explained by that man fathering thousands of offsprings.
To put in perspective, genghis khan slept with so many women and fathered so many children during his conquests that 1 in 5 men that live today In the land Genghis conquered is a descendant of genghis khan.
We don't know at all that that is Ghenghis Khan, we just hypothesis that it is him. All we know is that it's a male from Central Asia during the 12th century. The popular hypothesis obviously is Ghenghis Khan, but when it comes to historical evidence for Ghenghis Khan, it's probably not much better than Jesus when it comes to primary sources, and the length of time after events that things were written about, etc.