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166. Genghis Khan: Lord of the Mongols

The Rest Is History

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Is He a Figure of Fable?

Is it right that we remember him as this dreadful monster, or do you think actually, that's orientalizing? I always use the mongol empires asas an excellent case study of what nomadic peoples do. They were almost antithetical to our understandingwhat an empire should be. And if you rebelled, that was itand they, they struck terror. That a, obviously, that's so much that we don't know about the early years ofjengis khan and about growth of the mongel empire but scientists have shed light on three distinct areas.

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