>was filled with atrocities even genghis khan couldn't have imagined Excellent comment. My only quibble was this. Genghis Khan could have easily imagined the m

>was filled with atrocities even genghis khan couldn't have imagined Excellent comment. My only quibble was this. Genghis Khan could have easily imagined the mega genocides of the 20th century, since he did the same. Under his own rule and systematic conquests he had roughly 30 to 40 million people slaughtered according to many estimates. That goes beyond even the ballpark of Hitler and Stalin. Earlier still, fairly credible estimates of the death toll behind Ceasear's conquest of Gaul claim roughly a couple million killed by the future dictator's military forces. Nothing like Khan, but well into the range of some of the larger genocides from the 20th century Of course, the Nazi holocaust was rather unique in all human history for how systematically and industrially part of it was done but deliberate mass death is ultimately the ame thing regardless of how it's executed. Modern weapons are emphatically not necessary for genocide. One could ask the tutsis and hutus of today what they think of that idea too.