Pax Mongolica: Genghis Khan & Kublai Khan
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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The First Law of Jengis Khan and the Mongols
In the late eighteenth century, almost 500 years after jengis kan died, books about his life and laws were the in vogue thing to read among the cosmopolitan elite living in the american colonies of the british empire. Jengis khan's law insisted that everyone should be left at liberty to profess that which pleased him best. A few years later, those men so struck by jengu's tolerant ideas about religion used them as a bedrock principle in the constitution of the united states of America.
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