(06-04-2014 06:11 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(06-04-2014 05:39 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  Genghis Khan

This. The mongol Khan leaders in general. THERE IS NO COMPARISON.

You guys just don't understand. He is separated by a multiple with several zeros in it from anybody else.

Khan killed over 10,000,000 people.

Mounds of human remains were mistaken for snow capped mountains by nomads and travelers.

The mongols surrounded Baghdad and sent in an envoy to negotiate surrender terms. They killed the envoy. So the mongols wiped out Baghdad. All of it. They then CAME BACK a few days later to wipe out the people who manged to flee or hide. It only TODAY (750 years later) that the population of Baghdad is close to what it was before the mongols got there. At the time in 1258 it was the Islamic Golden Age. The Islamic world gave us algebra and many classic literary works. The mongol siege of Baghdad marks the end of the Islamic Golden Age. They wiped out even the knowledge of the people they conquered (foolishly). And then they spread their DNA around the women they conquered ... in particular the Khans. Genghis:

Quote:An international group of geneticists studying Y-chromosome data have found that nearly 8 percent of the men living in the region of the former Mongol empire carry y-chromosomes that are nearly identical. That translates to 0.5 percent of the male population in the world, or roughly 16 million descendants living today.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...nghis.html