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Re:Women Who Ran Genghis Khan’s Empire by wizwit999 on Monday June 06, 2022 @06:00PM (#31646921)
I mean Mongols depopulated entire large cities. E.g. the entire population of Merv, which was one of the world's largest cities at the time, was killed.
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Re:Women Who Ran Genghis Khan’s Empire by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Monday June 06, 2022 @06:45PM (#31647393)
Or Baghdad which maybe was the largest city in the world at the time it was sacked.
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Re:Women Who Ran Genghis Khan’s Empire by mrcheesebreeze on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @09:59AM (#31654400)
yeah but I was talking about brutality vs numbers.

the commies killed far more than anyone by numbers and in barbaric ways, but their brutality was beaten by those who killed less in more gruesome ways.

the mongols excelled at both but I argued by brutality imperial japan was a bit worse.

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