Used to read quite a bit about the Mongol era.
They were unparalleled butchers and masters of evil. Yet somehow they have largely been given a pass by modern historians…probably because they are not of western civilization.
Examples:
They perfected Genocide waaaayy before Hitler, Stalin and the Armenian massacre. On his rise to power Genghis exterminated an entire tribe..can’t remember which one..maybe the “white” mongols. Anyway he ordered all “men” as tall or taller than a cart wheeled executed and then 100% of the women enslaved.
They went on to conqueror the Khwarazmian Empire and rivers of blood flowed. You can look up the civilian populations massacred and it’s a list of 80,000 there 150,000 there, 72,000…here. When Baghdad was razed they killed SO many civilians the stench of 100s of thousands of corpses made them move their camp TWO times. Arabic sources claim 2,000,000 men, women and children were slaughtered…that’s when the population of the entire world (including the undiscovered americas) was about 1/2 billion. Islam literally almost disappeared at the height of their power…(hmmmm).
When they invaded Japan (and lost btw) they skewered hands of civilian captives (children too) and roped them together because it was easier than tying those finicky knots individually.
I don’t think even historians know how many Chinese the mongols killed. Millions upon millions.
Mongols wallowed in slavery.
Genghis Khan raped, married and bought so many women that up to 1 in every 10 men in Central Asia can trace ancestry directly to him today! His men did similar but to a less prolific degree.
Yes They were evil incarnate.
Yet modern western historians will say Christian conservative males are somehow the most evil…because we generally don’t like trans stripping in front of kids , do like Trump and want a regulated border I guess.
They found the easiest way to rule a territory was to pretty much kill everyone that could resist.
Then, tax the be-jeezus out of everyone who was left.
Good post. I might point out though that insofar as Islam is concerned, had it not been for the resistance that the Mongols encountered with the Mamluks all of western Europe may have fallen to them.
“””...When they invaded Japan ...”””
We see it on display every day, in the once-truth-seeking US free press, academia, and certainly in the US government.