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>women's rights

he's spot on with international law though, and also he did put together a code of conduct

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yassa

This is a sort of symptom of the breakdown of civilization in the former west. People literally cannot tell the difference between right and wrong and have such high levels of cognitive dissonance that they look for mirrors of their supposedly highest values in a bloodthirsty rapist whose avowed mission was to act as the "scourge of God", that is to say, to murder millions because it was heaven's will. A true liberal.

Although Khan brought some interesting legal changes to the areas he conquered (most notably imho that nobles and peasants alike generally received the same harsh punishments for the same crimes) and also did a better job at actually administrating the areas he conquered (as opposed to, say, the Huns), this doesn't change the fact that millions of people were murdered, multilated, and raped by the Mongols under their series of conquests. They merrily used genocidal terror tactics on individual towns to scare other towns into early submissions, and had absolutely no qualms to slaughter women and children if need be.

It appears Khan now officially has been invited into the ranks of the Dindu.

>>34391

He was a brutal conqueror, but in a way his actions brought about the end of feudalism and set us on the path to where we are today throguh the magical instrument of the Black Death, which only could have spread at such a quick rate over such long distances if there was a vast empire controlling most of Eurasia, as the Mongol Khanates were.

>>34405

>Scourge of god

I think your mixing it up with a different Mongoloid conqueror

>>34432

Yeah Timur is the only one who's literally considered himself "scourge of God", it's only been later attributed to Chinggis and Attila.

>>34437

Didn't Timur have writing on his tomb that said if it was opened a curse would happen and it came true with ww2 shit going on?

>>34440

eh, It was better Mesopotamia die then live to endure ayyrabs living on it's Historic soil

>>34405

>>>/pol/

>>34408

>which seeks to provide a balanced depiction of Genghis Khan

It's not excusing what he did, it's just trying to be more accurate, like what they say about Hitler and his love for dogs.

Why does that nigga have such a big head?

>>34459

>>34459

Little known fact about Khan. Nigga had a huge ass head.

>>34444

>Didn't Timur have writing on his tomb that said if it was opened a curse would happen and it came true with ww2 shit going on?

Never heard of this before. Is this what you were talking about?

http://historum.com/war-military-history/37223-tamerlane-ww2-tamerlane-s-curse-mystic-coincidences.html

>>34452

>It's not excusing what he did, it's just trying to be more accurate, like what they say about Hitler and his love for dogs.

>advocate of democracy, international law, and women's rights

>more accurate

You can't divorce the horrific inhumane things he did from who he was. He was cruel and ruthless leader who didn't hesitate to wipe out whole cities and everything that lived there, but who also introduced and actually enforced laws (very strict but effective laws).

Suggesting that Genghis Khan was actually a nice person who is just misunderstood, because he did some good stuff is like suggesting that Hitler was a nice person "because he liked animals and it was only mere 4 millions Jews, no 7".

Like if US or EU would set out to achieve world peace and democracy by mercilessly destroying everyone who didn't let themselves be subjugated immediately and than enacting good and effective laws, calling them "advocates of democracy and justice" would be a bit inaccurate even if there was some truth in it.

>>34500

>You can't divorce the horrific inhumane things he did from who he was

And they're not doing that, at least to my understanding. if they did that would be retarded indeed, but i don't think that's the case, neither did i say that was the case in the post you replied to.

>>34500

Did you listen to the lecture, or no?

>>34505

Ah, I misunderstood

>several popular writers have recently portrayed him as an advocate of democracy, international law, and women's rights. Morris Rossabi, Senior Research Scholar, Queens College, Columbia University, offers this illustrated lecture, which seeks to provide a balanced depiction of Genghis Khan

… thought it to mean that it's by those "several popular writers" when it in fact is trying to correct them.

>>34500

>You can't divorce the horrific inhumane things he did from who he was.

If you haven't listened to Wrath of the Khans by Dan Carlin, you should at least listen to the first half-hour or so, He talks about this^.

You really should listen to the whole series, if you haven't; it's great.

his intro is a minute long, if you want to skip it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvrtX9ZWAOE

>>34508

>his intro is a minute long

55 seconds, to be exact.

>>34506

>seeks to provide a balanced depiction of Genghis Khan

AND to explain the reasons for the myths that have developed

you should listen to it. it's very good

>>34405

>Scourge of God

That was Attila. Huns were Turkics related to Xiongnu, not Mongolians (although they had similar cultures and were both Tengriists)

Temujin was a kebab and merchant removalist extraordinaire however.

>>34525

>Temujin was a kebab and merchant

He did get many help from Arab merchants when he was attacking Persia, but he himself wasn't a merchant