[Vermont Lt]

Because the method that the Kahns used were so brutal. Alexander annexed countries and absorbed them.

Kahn just killed them all. Men, women, kids, dogs. All of them. You cannot have a rebellion if you are all dead.

[allmendream]

Cities the resisted too long were eliminated other than those spared to spread word. It was a brutal but effective tactic.

Genghis Khan ruled over more conquered human beings than any other conqueror in history - he didn't kill them all - just enough to provide a compelling example.

[The_Reader_David]

Actually, the Mongols were perfectly happy to let everyone live, provided they got their tribute. What’s more, the Mongol empire was the first country in the world with universal religious toleration and constituted a free-trade zone almost the entire length of Eurasia. Because the Mongols, unlike the Teutonic Knights, were perfectly happy to let the Rus remain Orthodox Christians, St. Alexander Nevsky made the Republic of Novgorod tributary to the Mongols so he could turn his military attentions against the northern Crusaders.

In a way a shame the Mongols’ attitude toward hygiene was as retrograde as their attitude toward religion and commerce was forward-looking: they collapsed due to infectious diseases the spread of which was facilitated by the Mongol abhorence of bathing.

[decimon]

Because the method that the Kahns used were so brutal.

Yeah, that was some killer kreplach. The Khans were another matter.