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IMO we should not look at Genghis Kahn's Empire fondly. After listening to Hardcore History's Wrath of the Khans, I think they have been the most evil group humanity has produced so far. Time seems to heal all wounds but Genghis Khan sure seemed to have made a lot of wounds.
Who looks at the Mongol empire fondly?
IMO we should not look at Genghis Kahn's Empire fondly. After listening to Hardcore History's Wrath of the Khans, I think they have been the most evil group humanity has produced so far. Time seems to heal all wounds but Genghis Khan sure seemed to have made a lot of wounds.
The worst Empire in that case is USA with how they obliterated the North American populations and wiped out many tribes.
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I don't know if we can call them the most evil. There are plenty of contenders, even if the death rates don't match up. If we go purely by deathrates then we should pick communist china or the soviet union. If we go by barbarity the mongol empire, the timurids, and the japanese empire (talking the one from ww2) are all good contenders. Imperial japan was so bad that the nazi ambassador to china in nanking did his bes…
I mean Mongols depopulated entire large cities. E.g. the entire population of Merv, which was one of the world's largest cities at the time, was killed.
the commies killed far more than anyone by numbers and in barbaric ways, but their brutality was beaten by those who killed less in more gruesome ways.
the mongols excelled at both but I argued by brutality imperial japan was a bit worse.
IMO we should not look at Genghis Kahn's Empire fondly. After listening to Hardcore History's Wrath of the Khans, I think they have been the most evil group humanity has produced so far. Time seems to heal all wounds but Genghis Khan sure seemed to have made a lot of wounds.
The worst Empire in that case is USA with how they obliterated the North American populations and wiped out many tribes.
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It may surprise you but basically every empire did genocide at one point or another. “Total war” wasn’t a thing in premodern history because every war was a total war.
This is essentially incorrect. While we can point to legendary incidents such as Carthage in the history of empires, the Mongols are notable in premodern history for systemically using this as a strategy to conquer large rivals by fear and hold a territory size that conventional pre-modern empire building would not allow. Regardless of morality, most empires were better positioned to preserve and exploit life and pro…
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Sounds interesting, I would read that. There is a lot of fascinating literature about differences in gender roles between western and eastern Germany behind the iron curtain.
There were white supremacist women who were also pro-suffrage. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/01/05/suffra... Intersectionality cuts both ways.
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The worst Empire in that case is USA with how they obliterated the North American populations and wiped out many tribes.
This is so absurd and disrespectful to the Native American warriors. Only a person completely ignorant of basically anything to do with Native American history would say something like this in this context.
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> After listening to Hardcore History's Wrath of the Khans, I think they have been the most evil group humanity has produced so far. Never forget that history is written by the victors. The Mongol Empire was replaced by the Russian Empire.
In China?
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The worst Empire in that case is USA with how they obliterated the North American populations and wiped out many tribes.
This is so absurd and disrespectful to the Native American warriors. Only a person completely ignorant of basically anything to do with Native American history would say something like this in this context.
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The worst Empire in that case is USA with how they obliterated the North American populations and wiped out many tribes.
Weird comment. The USA didn't treat the Indians with white gloves but there are surely more egregious examples in history. Vlad the impaler? Ivan the terrible? Various African warlords?