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If the numbers are true, Genghis Khan killed more people in a few decades than the Romans did in a thousand years. It's estimated that 15M died in the Mongols'
by Red_Tarsius 9y ago
If the numbers are true, Genghis Khan killed more people in a few decades than the Romans did in a thousand years. It's estimated that 15M died in the Mongols' five-year invasion of central Asia. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/2004/04/04/steppe-masters/1606bbc8-77ff-4170-a73d-f87ae4899208/?utm_term=.c7aeada4b360 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/2... Rome used to turn the defeated tribes into slaves (though it was not a permanent status) or tax-paying citizens.
- usefulcat 9y agoJust to add a bit of context: that 15M figure averages out to a quarter million people every single month for five years.
- Red_Tarsius 9y agoJack Weatherford, author of the controversial Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, wrote that "...more conservative scholars place the number of dead from Genghis Khan's invasion of central Asia at 15 million within five years." But he strongly disagrees with that estimate. https://books.google.it/books?id=A8Y9B5uHQcAC&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&dq=jack+weatherford+15+million&source=bl&ots=Cc40qIf6i3&sig=Ge_Dc0Ooj7Bq1jZCO_ZyzH5Px-o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4rOHtvc_VAhVFxRQKHaD5A8MQ6AEITjAI#v=snippet&q=%22while%20the%20destruction%22&f=false https://books.google.it/books?id=A8Y9B5uHQcAC&pg=PA118&lpg=P...
- vacri 9y agoMost of the numbers in the link are the bodycounts of soldiers, not civilians. And the count for 'slavery' is laughably small and only deals with slaves executed as punishment; far, far more slaves were worked to death in the fields and mines. You really, really didn't want to be a Roman slave, unless you were an educated Greek.