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Just to add a bit of context: that 15M figure averages out to a quarter million people every single month for five years.
by usefulcat 9y ago
Just 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...