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?
Should have lasted a bit more to pass through whole Europe, that’s all I’m saying.
gotta destroy to rebuild
Based
In the PRC there may be divided opinions about many dynasties such as the Tang, Ming, Qing etc. but considering the atrocities the Yuan enacted on the conquered citizens of the Song Dynasty, with many women choosing to kill their firstborn (not going to mention that word) as a result, they’re viewed rather negatively for obvious reasons.
Modern outer Mongolia is remains an extremely Sinophobic nation and a “global partner” of NATO and the US. Memories of the empire for them still evoke strong nationalist sentiment so many in the PRC won’t view outer Mongolia very fondly either. (The more nationalist types would view them on the same level as the imperial Japanese)
Choibalsan didn’t kill enough people.
The Mongols made the same mistake as Stalin… they didn’t continue West. smh… 😞
Worshiped by PatSocs.
'Nuff said.
Makes me think of this classic.
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PatSocs have the same energy as every high school locker room bully. And they have the same weaknesses.
Yeah
Interesting. How come?
Because they were ruthless imperialists.
Even moreso with the sheer brutality and cruelty of their conquests, definitely something the PatSoc types would be drooling over.
Yeah, definitely
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The Mongols under Genghis Khan are hated by many Asian countries and especially China for a reason.
Did they oppress the Chinese similar to other empires did to their conquered subjects? Genuinely asking I don’t know
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.
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.
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
A lot of dynasties did that.
You’re right.
They should’ve died sooner.