800 years ago was also when Genghis Khan was at the height of his power. He died one year later in 1227 from old age, which was very rare for a conqueror. The right in the US could well make use of his tactical genius of achieving victory while almost always being vastly outnumbered.
He was a military genius.
But much of his power came from the Medieval warm period.
It brought mild winters and rain to the Asiatic steppes. This increased the number of Mongols and their horses; it allowed them to move freely across thousands of miles of what had been forbidding steppes without fodder.
Their numbers had been limited by frequent droughts. Now they had a couple of centuries to build up population and power.
When the Medieval warm period ended, so did their empire.
I came up with the theory myself, but found others had formulated it and verified it before me.
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I thank him for all the beautiful red-headed Irish girls with epicanthic folds.