I’ve been wondering about empires throughout history. I don’t know too much about the Empire associated with Ghengis Khan to have an opinion. Do you, as a communist?

  • Makan ☭ CPUSA
    link
    111 year ago

    The Mongols under Genghis Khan are hated by many Asian countries and especially China for a reason.

    • KiG V2OP
      link
      71 year ago

      Did they oppress the Chinese similar to other empires did to their conquered subjects? Genuinely asking I don’t know

      • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
        cake
        link
        11
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Yes, at first they reportedly even wanted to literally murder all settled people they conquered (those were northern China mostly) to make place for more pastures but got convinced by rich tribute to just sit back and enjoy the racket. Their counquest of China was long and bloody (took 3 generations from Genghis to Kublai) and the Yuan dynasty was probably the most hated and reviled in history of China - that mostly went on the head of Kublai though, Genghis is seen more positively, mostly because respecting the Mongols for whom he is the foremost national hero.

      • @redtea
        link
        101 year ago

        It’s difficult to answer. Ghengis’ empire was brutal but which empire wasn’t? It would’ve been class-based in a similar way as Europe at the same time, where the ruling class also an elite military body and usually related to each other. So even if it wasn’t as bad as other empires, it would’ve still been bad.

        The difficulty is that most of what is ‘common sense’ knowledge about Ghengis (a) focuses on the conquest, rather than what happened afterwards, and (b) is written by westerners who cannot be trusted to write about Asians. We need a book about the era (not just during Ghengis’ reign) like the one about Rome by Parenti.

    • @Franfran2424
      link
      -41 year ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_dynasty#Impact

      The mongol dinasty in China unified it as a single country and connected it to the world in a way that benefitted both China and the Muslim world.

      Later chinese historiography tried to hide the development they brought in a century, but mongol empire was definitely a net benefit