*       From: Daniel Davies

Genghis Khan and his Mongols attempted much the same sort of thing upon
their invention of the stirrup?

Dd

^^^^^^^^
CB: I suspect our view of Khan is distorted.

I heard a lecture by an anthropologist on Genghis Khan in which Khan sounds
more like a nomad liberationist, taming the "civilizations",i.e. class
divided societies around then.

Picking up on what Yoshie mentioned, this lecturer said that the first law
that Khan instituted was against kidnapping women. Also, once they conquered
a city militarily, they did not rule it.

Then of course, Khan did not conquer the globe. Given his modus operandi, he
wouldn't have conquered the indigenous American cultures nor established the
slave trade etc. The analogy seems more the reverse: as if the Indians
defeated the European colonialists, Khan's forces being like the Indians.

So, no , it probably was not comparable, and perhaps the reverse.  The
Romans or Alexander would have been more comparable as actual conquerers.
Genghis Khan seems more like a punisher of empires.

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