Genghis Khan: The Extreme Brutality Of The Medieval Mongol King | History By Numbers

there are a lot of conflicting stories about chingas Khan he is depicted especially in Western media as a villain or that shenas Khan was so busy having sex that he practically did nothing else he did things that many people would consider horrific the extreme numbers of mass murder and reprisal were sensational and on the other hand he did many things that make him a hero in only 25 years he rises from nobody to Emperor he and his Mongol Army of less than 300,000 men conquer a massive Empire the likes of which the world has never seen and so the myth becomes greater than the man the sun sets on him at an angle and he casts a long long shadow so who was the gask Khan of 800 years ago and what do the numbers reveal about his breathtaking achievements this is the story of one really tough childhood the power of the number 10 to conquer the world 40 million deaths and a lot of people today who could carry his DNA [Music] gask Khan's gotten a pretty bad rap over the past 800 years but maybe we're all just jealous because at its height his Mongol Empire was the greatest United land empire ever seen stretching from the Pacific to the Mediterranean it covered 12 million square miles about 1/5 of the planet's entire land mass that's six times the size of both the Roman Empire and that of Alexander the Great if we're ranking Empires by size gask Khan is the greatest conqueror ever and yet the English-speaking world can't even get his name right the most commonly used name for him is genghiskhan that is actually a European misreading of his name technically we should be calling him is KH Ching meaning as something truthful and powerful and real Khan being the Central Asian equivalent to King or Emperor and ironically we can't seem to get his name straight even though there are 16 million reasons to do so in 2003 a study made headlines when it claimed that more than 16 million men in the world today may carry the Y chromosome linked to chingas Gan that means that chingis could be the distant father of at least one in every 200 men alive today that story just exploded and infiltrated popular culture but we can't be certain because we don't have his DNA precisely the idea that so many people are descended from him maybe we do know that he had a lot of wives the Mongols were a polygamous culture it was normal for a Mongol to have multiple wives and Yus K was certainly no exception on top of it he had so many conquests that he would typically take a wife from each tribe that he conquered these were quite literally trophy wives a little different meaning from what we have today but that wasn't enough for him he also had many many concubines in total it is thought that shingus Khan had at least six official wives as well as over 500 concubines but until we have more evidence his genetic imprint Falls somewhere between myth and reality that's just a part of his legacy and there are many other aspects that needs to be looked at like how in the world a powerless nobody grew into one of the most fearsome conquerors of all time the answer one Omen two murders and one kidnapping chingus is story starts in Mongolia a country now wedged between modern-day Russia and China over 600,000 square miles it is the world's second biggest landlock country and the most sparsely populated with a density of 5 people per square mile not much grows in this harsh environment so the medieval Mongols must be constantly on the move the nomadic families who have to move at least four times a year changing pastures in order to feed the animal even today over 25% of Mongolians still follow a nomadic way of life I don't think I would do well moving in the seasons I'm very lazy I don't like moving because it involves packing and also the moving part I don't know if you can tell I don't have the most muscles in the world so uh finding someone to carry my bed frame is usually my biggest obstacle if I was moving around just to chase summer everywhere I was going I could totally do that I'm not moving anywhere for the winter like I'm not doing that Mongolia is his home but what do we know of chingus himself there are Clues hidden in the 12 chapters of the secret history of the Mongols a 13th century Chronicle of chingus his life and where better to start than chapter 1 The Story begins in 1162 ad when a baby boy is born on the banks of the Onan River as the baby's mother mother CS over her new bundle of joy she notices something [Music] odd in his tiny fist he clutches a knuckle sized clot of blood an omen but of what exactly in Asian folkloric or Mythic ways this is an indication of future greatness but it can also be interpreted as chingis being someone who is going to be a bloodthirsty so it depends on who he's telling the story a lot is riding on this one Omen will he turn out to be one great guy or one mass murderer with 40 million deaths to his name he's a long way from being chingas Khan so his father calls his baby timin after the chief of a rival tribe he's recently captured and by naming him timen basically the ideas you're you're taking some of that power the chief is then murdered to ensure the transfer to the baby so far we've got one Omen and one murder but murder number two won't be far [Music] behind tagin learns early on that he must be as merciless as the step an empty and endless Plateau spanning Central Asia if he hopes to [Music] survive when tagin is 9 years old his father dies leaving behind two widows and seven children the family now had no status and were cast out and and were living off scraps by Mongolian standards this is abject poverty five years after his father's death tagin decides to act The Story Goes they were out Scavenging and yasan had caught a fish and this half brother who was older snatched the fish from him so youngest or timan as he was called then stalked after him bector his older half brother who is sitting on a grassy null guarding the family's nine horses sees tagin coming tagin pulls back his Arrow his arms shaking with tension and releases the string the arrow pierces through Bear's body it's murder number two on tagen's path to world domination and it pretty much set the standard for the rest of his life don't cross him what in the King Lear is happening right now my family has never experienced fratricide per se but there was one time when my brother and I were fighting and I like threw a boot at him and then he was jumping on a bed and he fell off and we had to go to the hospital and we learned our lesson that night so killing on his own makes timen a murderer but killing with an army will make him a hero and it will take one kidnapping and 40,000 Warriors for him to come to this dangerous conclusion back during the 12th century different Mongolian tribes were fighting with each other the whole Mongolian Nomad step culture was rival Clans and tribes all raiding each other all murdering each other constant Petty skirmishing and the Mongols are but one of the Region's five biggest tribes fighting for power and wealth at this time we receive an eye for an eye type of Justice or in some cases a heart for a heart early one morning 17-year-old tagin lays in bed with his new wife borte suddenly they hear the Earth shattering sound of 1,200 horses it's a surprise attack from the Rival merket tribe timen and his companions get on horses and ride away and so everyone safe except for one little thing um they left BTE behind the merket find her and kidnap her tagin escapes with his life but his heart is torn [Music] in tagin recruits jamua his childhood best friend to help him get her back [Music] together they gather an army of 40,000 Horsemen and by the Light of the full moon tagin and jamua charge on the merkit camp Tagan searches for his wife calling out bour bour she hears his call and basically we have this scene that you might have in a movie where you have the Moonlight they join together in an Embrace and it's often described as like this love story he's doing it out of intense romantic love for her tagin will make the merket pay for taking his first love over the next few years he will hunt them down and wipe their name off the map going after borti and showing that he had the ability to draw Warriors to his side and exact rate revenge and get what he was going after is going to be something he points to over and over again as part of the justification for his rise to power tagin has tasted Conquest tasted Vengeance tasted victory he's ready to become chingis Khan and make himself an Empire but it will take a four-letter word to make it happen news of the the merket defeat spreads across the step tagin gathers more followers and over the next two decades he conquers the Region's tribes one by one by 1206 tagin has United the major tribes of the step he Now controls a territory the size of Western Europe he's United the tribes of Mongolia into what he will call the Y Mongol Ulus or great Mongol Nation not only does the country get a new title tagin himself finally takes on the name of chingis Khan anytime a ruler gets one of these titles and not simply having KH attached to his name is symbolic so it's like it's s if he is getting born socially and politically in a new format to rule all the Mongols ooh I've always wanted to pick my name maybe like uh Jeff the don't even try it like you can't win like really long a sentence it's like Jeff don't even try that like he can't be beaten even if you're pretty smart like don't even go for [Music] it chingis needs to keep his new subjects happy if he wants to keep them United [Music] so how many letters does it take to spell happiness for chingis the answer is just four l o o t there's no paycheck for the nomadic Warriors basically their income comes from not only their livestock but also the loot that they gather in their first team building exercise chingis takes his men South to conquer the kingdom of Shish after Shish defeated in 1209 chingis sets his sights on the Northern Chinese Jinn Dynasty well he knows eventually the Jin will try to overthrow him why he's become too powerful over the next four years the Mongols unleash hell on the Chinese Countryside forcing 1 million peasants to pour into the cities as refugees the best thing the Jinn can really do is hide behind their walls because every time they send out an army the Mongols seem to win by 12 14 the Mongols make it to the Jin capital of Jong du now modern-day Beijing the city is heavily fortified 1 30 m section is enclosed by walls 40 ft High 900 battle towers and three Moes after months of bombardment Jong du finally Falls for one month the Mongols sack the capital they kill so many people that it's said that the streets are slippery with human fat shingus gets 10% of the spoils but he'll distribute the rest to his people ensuring that even widows and orphans receive a cut the more chingis gives his subjects the more they crave and he'll be happy to oblige since he can count on the force of 13 his lucky [Music] number so we know why chinga begins his Mongol conquests but how did he do it with a big boost of [Applause] horsepower the early Mongol Empire was created on the back of a horse and could not have been done otherwise the Mongol horse gives ching' Army a helping hand actually 13 hands or 4T that's the average height of the Mongols breed the same size as a pony it's like the Bunny Hill of horses that's probably why they're successful they think oh we can take these guys they're on these tiny little ponies and then they get like taken out cuz Ponies are vicious listen it's not the size of the horse it's how you use it what these horses lack in size they make up for in stamina unlike many of its counterparts the Mongol horse has a fifth gate also known as an amble the amble is an action that's quite natural in horses we've bred it out of most of them both legs on one side move followed by both legs on the other it's called a lateral gate so it kind of has this action the horse can sustain this gate for long stretches maintaining speeds between 10 to 15 mph traveling up to 600 m in 9 days while also conserving the energy of its Rider a rider is less fatigued far less fatigued all you have is a very gentle sideways swaying motion there's no bouncing up and down you're not using the muscles of your legs and each Mongol Warrior will travel with a string of at least three additional horses so they will never have to stop riding you'd sleep in the saddle you'd change horses every hour or so you wouldn't waste time getting onto the ground and getting up again the rider wouldn't even have to stop to make dinner they would take slices of raw meat and put it under their saddles in the morning and the Heat and sweat and friction of riding would cook the meat and they would have their dinner waiting for them at the end of the day I'm not sure how delicious uh saddle sweat meat is but it is a creative way to cook something but the Mongol Warrior will also need some Firepower to become the inter ballistic missile of the Medieval Era we call them composite bows because they're made of a composition of several materials not like a wooden bow that's just made with a single material of wood like their horses the Mongol bow was small but its range was large it could fire a deadly poison tipped Arrow more than 350 yard beating the English Longbow by a good 100 yards one of chingas Khan's nephews is on record for hitting a Target at over 575 yds that's almost six American football fields end to end Marco Polo tells us that a Mongol Warrior would carry 60 arrows in his quiver that's an awful lot and when you think of the tens of thousands in a Mongol Army did you extrapolate those numbers it is a phenomenal pale of iron shard arrows raining down on an [Music] enemy the supremacy of their horse archers mixed with a bit of trickery make the Mongol Army the masters of the surprise attack and then you couple that with mongal tactics such as tying Brushwood to the Tails of the loose horses and the dust clouds would be seen from many many miles away and the scouts would report there is an army of immense size coming and their knowledge of horse travel is from their culture where horses can only travel as fast as the supply line it was the perfect Army for the challenge of the time and in 1219 ad the time has come for chingis to lead his horse archers to Greener and wealthier pastures after the fall of Jang duu chingis is continuing his hostile takeover of northern China when he's suddenly forced to turn his attention westwards the reason 550 rolling heads and two beardless men in 1218 ad a Mongolian funded Caravan of 550 merchants and guards makes its way to the Central Asian Empire of quasi the greatest Empire You' never heard of it covered much of usbekistan Tajikistan Afghanistan and Iran largest Islamic empire at the time the caravan's 500 camels carry booty and treasure from the East a camel can carry an average of 300 lb of weight that means ching' Caravan is carrying around 150,000 pound worth of [Music] riches but at the border city of otrar the Caravan is attacked now the governor of ultra suspects them as spies they probably were also spies trade missions Through the Ages have often included spies the governor takes all the merchandise and beheads 549 members of the party a single camel driver manages to escape but shingus is reluctant to retaliate he doesn't really want to start a new military campaign but you know a lot of his brand is Vengeance and reprisal if you cross Mees but he just tries one more tactic chingis tries to be diplomatic and sends three ambassadors to the governor's boss the shaw of the Empire to politely ask for the Governor's execution instead the Sha beheads one of the Mongol ambassadors the other two have their beards burned off and are told to take the head back to chingis naturally chingus KH does not receive this well there is no more talk there is no more negotiation gasan assembles an army of perhaps 200,000 troops and he sends them down on the quarian Empire like a hammer he will take the city and then Massacre much of the Garrison that resisted him the survivors of the city he'll go through and evaluate them if they don't have any unique or essential talents they're going to become Aero father and the governor the foolish defiant governor who had killed those Traders he was made an example of the Mongols will have a sense of ironic Whimsy about them when they execute him they killed him by pouring molten silver into his eyes and into his ears it's a vicious image that haunts us even today but that was the whole point of it that the word would spread that the terror would spread and that in future towns would open their Gates and spare the Mongol Army the trouble of besieging them like otar chingis will not hesitate to crush the those who ignore the stories of his brutality the Mongol terms of surrender are very basic surrender or die if someone wrongs me uh I am not the person to let it go that's not my personality uh I'm Petty I see how gask Khan kind of like started you know what I mean I wouldn't say like wipe out an entire nation but like you know listen life is short I don't time for Revenge so I just killed them really quick get it over with if chingis is to continue taking over the world he'll need to harness the power of His Mighty Warriors and he'll do it through the number 10 the organization of the army was absolutely key he had this sophisticated command structure this sophisticated structure of unit and the most basic building block of ching' new Army will be the Arbon a squad of 10 Warriors he'd make sure that Brothers cousins Fathers and Sons were separated into different Arbon units to thwart any threat of rebellion in a tribal Society people have the highest loyalty to their own family members therefore each unit of 10 was a combination of men from different Origins who had to form new bonds with one another they go through the same hell together they suffer the same punishments together and that bonds them that makes them friends who are ready to die for each other 10 of these AR bonds then make one company of 100 called the yagon and then 10 yons make one Min gun of a th000 Warriors whoever commands A Min gun commands a considerable Force but there's a price to pay so what genas Gan did was he would take the sons or other relatives of the leader of a mingan and they would go to the to the Royal Court but they also functioned as hostages it was known that if that leader of the mingan wasn't 100% loyal to the great Khan then his relative would suffer the consequences if someone were going to hold something hostage for me it'd be like my video game console for sure right well if but okay so if I have the choice of what they take then take my husband take my boyfriend take my mom but if you touch my cat it's game over and it doesn't end there because 10 men guns make one two month 10,000 Warriors the number 10 has never looked so [Music] scary those who get in shas's way will be added to an overwhelming number of zeros as chingis and his army carve a path through Asia it's recorded that 1.7 million are killed in the city of nishapur in harat the death toll climbs to 2.4 million but can we trust these estimates a quarter of harat is alleged to be of 600,000 people keep in mind the population of Constantinople at its height was approximately 500,000 people there is no way harat had four times the population of Constantinople many of these numbers are written by people hostile to the Mongols so they definitely want to convey the terror of the Mongol so what do these numbers reveal that the people who recorded them like the historian ju johnni he's never seen destruction on this scale before in his life either way Mongols bring a bloody end to the qumi and Empire staggering numbers of zeros enable the Mongols to expand their empire fire to 12 million square miles but it'll take more than Brute Force to sustain it one of the perks of the Mongol conquests is control over the Silk Road the Silk Road is a trade Network moving from East Asia down into Southwest Asia in the Mediterranean at its Zenith it spans over 4,000 mil the silk routes date back to ancient times but by the 13th century the network fallen into disrepair and become stagnant yet shinga sees value in revitalizing the system it was essential that tribute being paid was conveyed to a central point and distributed that taxes came in messages information because of unification of this massive stretch of land he was able to actually make the Silk Road a smoother place to travel this Silk Road 2.0 facilitates the exchange of Revenue and culture but it also serves as the backbone for the Mongols new intelligence system an incredibly efficient Postal System called the utoy in China was known as the yam so how does this system work postal stations are set up 20 M apart and civilians are forced to maintain a stock of about 200 fast horses at each post ready to go for the yam [Music] Messengers these Riders could cover easily 100 miles in a day because they go to a post they get on a new horse and keep going they rode so hard that they actually had a silk cloth binding around their abdomen not only to strengthen their spine from the constant concussion of hard riding but to hold their internal organs together and to make travel more efficient the Mongols issue special passports to Messengers merchants and diplomats it was often a cast bronze disc with an inscription you know ordering safe passage by today's standards he abolished the barriers of going through customs and declaring and being searched and shas's Forward Thinking approach also applies to religion whether you worship one God or dozens as long as you did not cause trouble in the Empire the Mongols really did not have much of an issue he also institutes a hiring policy based on achievement at least 20% of his M gun unit leaders are promoted on Merit but can any of these numbers cancel out the big one the fact that shingus and his army are said to be responsible for the death of around 40 million people a number that accounts for around 10% of the world's population at that time if 10% of the world's population was wiped out today that would be equivalent to 780 million deaths and yet shas's death may be the most brutal of all chingas Khan's life is one of Mythic proportions and his death will prove to be just as legendary there are several stories on how chinhan dies there's one where he's struck by lightning there's another one where he dies where basically he subdued the shisha Rebellion having conquered Shish he was having sex with the conquered Shish Queen who hid a gruesome device within herself and did such damage to him while while they had sex I'm not making this up although someone must have that he uh apparently was mortally wounded and bled to death the secret history has a completely different version one day he's out hunting and he gets thrown from his horse and suffers internal injuries and he died in August of 1227 that seems to be the real story in the step when you died your spirit continued to live and your spiritual power was akin to what it was in the real world so if you were just a simple Shepherd your spiritual power was basically the same if you were a con you were very powerful what if you were chingas Khan and you had conquered places that no one had ever heard of before you had done things that no one had ever done what would your power be so in the eyes of the Mongols shingus Khan becomes not just the founder of their empire but essentially a Demi God so how do you lay a God to rest Legend has it chingas Khan's dying wish is for his resting place to be kept secret his burial procession lasts 40 days and on the way his troops are said to kill every person and animal they encounter the 50 mourners at his burial are killed as well to ensure the secrecy of the location and then the the guards who carried out the executions are also killed and before his tomb is sealed 40 virgin women are sacrificed and buried with him and finally 800 Horsemen trample the grave site to make sure no one will ever find it Well I mean I guess they needed 800 horses cuz they're so tiny why would you kill every animal that you encountered like yeah I understand people they talk they're going to say some but animals it it seems like Overkill but he was kind of known for Overkill so he was thought to have been brought back to Mongolia and buried there probably on Mount Boran calun this sacred and holy mountain for over 8 centuries the Mongolian royal family keep this Sacred Space sealed they call it eoric the great taboo and no one is allowed to enter with an area covering 93 square miles protecting this blessed sight is no small feat but shas's Legacy will prove to be as deadly after his death as during his lifetime it had taken chingis 25 years to build an Empire but it'll take his grandson only 384 hours to destroy one when he dies in 1227 the Mongol territory stretches from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea and it continues to expand under his successors in 1257 ad one of his grandsons tries to make Grandpa chingis Proud by striking at the heart of the Islamic World Baghdad at this time Baghdad is the capital of the wealthy abased caliphate Dynasty it had the reputation of perhaps being the finest city in the world it had Muses and and palaces and 36 libraries but the caliphate refuses to pay the tribute demanded by the Mongols under the order of Ching's grandson 150,000 Mongol Warriors surround the city with more courage than wisdom the governor of Baghdad sends out a force of 20,000 Horsemen and what the nomads do is they send their Chinese Eng engineers and they dig dikes at the edge of the Tigress River and flood an area behind the attacking Horsemen almost all of the horsemen are killed after 16 days of bombardment Baghdad [Applause] Falls and the Mongols swarmed in they were without Mercy for six days and nights the Mongols ransack the city leaving piles of bodies in their wake the caliphate was seen as basically Timeless and essential so for the Islamic world it's destruction was Earth shattering within 384 hours the Mongols managed to undo 500 years of the abised caliphate in Baghdad but for the Mongols I don't know if it was really more than just another day in the office [Music] not long after Baghdad the Empire enjoys an era of relative peace and prosperity known as the Pax mongolica but by the mid 14th century the Mongols inadvertently unleash a monster more ferocious than any Warrior 100 million times as deadly the Bubonic plague it arguably spread because of the trade along the Silk Road and because of the inter connectiveness of the Mongol Empire as Merchants traveled throughout the Empire they brought rats in their Caravans and ships and these rats brought fleas and on these fleas is urenia pesus the bacteria that causes the Bubonic plague less than one tenth of an inch the same size is a pin head these tiny bugs will kill more people than shas's Mongol army ever did but there's another theory that it came more directly from the Mongols after the siege of kafa now kafa is in the Crimea the bottom of Ukraine in the Black Sea very prosperous trading town and it was run and occupied by genoes Merchants the Mongols basically allowed them to rule this city but pay taxes and tribute there's been a dispute between the Italians and the Mongols and the Mongols are there to settle it and it is said that the Mongols use their trebuchet to flinging the carcasses of plague victims to spread disease within the city a machine adopted from the Chinese the trebuchet can launch a missile weighing 200 lb over a range of 3 yd about the same length as the Eiffel Tower this is Medieval biological warfare okay that's really dirty Warfare but it's not stupid but it's really gross but that's pretty smart to do like the commitment on that strategy is just really crazy they were well uh before their time wow the today's governments would have been impressed finally CFA fell and some people ES escaped and they got to their boats and they went back to genua then that was a quick passage for the plague to get to Europe by the end of the century around one quarter of the global population will have been wiped out by the plague with the spread of the plague the United Mongol Empire starts to fall apart and it will crumble into four pieces the Mongol Empire breaks down for a very simple reason lack of a clear succession principle before he died rather than pass his power to one successor Chena splits up his kingdom amongst four of his sons unlike in European monarchies where it's the first born son inherits all of the Power and becomes the ruler his grandchildren will solidify this division by establishing a confederation of four separate kingdoms known as Kates the golden hord in Russia the ilate in haran the shagai in Central Asia and the Yuan Dynasty in East Asia and they sort of had their own kinds of ways of crumbling with the plague disrupting the trade and communication between the Mongol Confederation the Kates lack the will to stay United the Mongol Empire that shingus Khan had dreamt of Withers and and dies and yet shas's 250 ton Legacy continues to weigh heavy on the hearts and minds of modern Mongolians to this [Music] day following the fall of the Empire the Mongolians go from the conquerors to being ruled by others and it'll take them more than 5 centuries plus 3 days to reclaim their Glory in the 20th century the Mongols are forced to Ally with the USSR becoming the second communist country ever but even from Beyond the Grave chingis Khan is able to instill fear in the hearts of the Soviets in fact Stalin is so scared of chingus inspiring Rebellion he goes out of his way to suppress his legacy if the Arts or Media or literature had content that mentioned chingis Khan or mentioned the past those uh Works were not allowed to be produced and the authors the creators of these Works would be punished when Mongolia emerges from communist rule in the early 1990s chingas Khan is the figure that everyone can latch on to and agree upon because he is not only a national hero but he's one that the world knows about and chingas Mania sweeps the nation you see chingas Khan on everything there is money with his face on it currency denominations over a 100 have chingas Khan on them you have chingas Khan airport you can go to chingas Khan University you can stay at the chingas Khan hotel and have a chingas Khan beer have a chingas Khan vodka but all this branding pales in comparison to the biggest changus of them all so the equestrian statue of chasan was erected in 2008 about 50 kilm from ambata and it is meant to be this place where the Mongolians can feel connected to their past costing over $4 million the statue stands 131 ft tall and weighs a whopping 250 tons the sheer size of the gask Khan statue in Mongolia is a reflection of just how important he is for national identity statues are cool but we all know the best way to celebrate someone is with a big party and the Mongols show chingis much love during their Annual nadam Festival used by chingis to train and celebrate his army the nadum games is a three-day Affair in which thousands of participants compete for the glory of the Mongols and a cash prize in three main events long-distance horse races up to 16 mil for children ages is 5 to 13 an Archer competition in which teams of 5 to seven archers shoot arrows at a range of 66 to 82 yards and a nine round wrestling tournament over 800 years later and shingus is still the guest of honor at the nadam he created a new nation and indeed there would not be a Mongolia or Mongolian people without him the Mongolians themselves are very proud to have the history that they had and look up to the figure of chasan as their powerful originator his Legend stands on its own because the historical facts support that legend that Empire really was humongous it really was put together remarkably quickly but let's not forget shingus did all of these remarkable things at the expense of millions of lives there's no easy stories in history we all have to take the guilt with the glory if we look at our past none of us have a clean sheep he did conquer he did Kill and chingas Khan was a very destructive man he was a form of monster but he was also a genius and he was an inspiration that lifted a people up and beyond anything they could ever have dreamed of being no wonder there is a big statue of him did he 24 hours in the day like all of us or did you have extra time dude so much stuff like chill 40 million deaths is like you know that's like a life's work he really put in his 10,000 hours I mean if you're going to get to conquering you're going to kill some people successful conquerer successful murderer that's just how the game goes I think genghiskhan was ambitious uh to say the least um bloodthirsty killer uh maybe uh but I don't think that's all he was so gangan was religiously tolerant he promoted base of meritocracy but he also killed a lot of people [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Published: Sat Jun 01 2024