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Re:"Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026 (1960) by smolder on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:01AM (#50485462)
> Genghis Khan [1: approximately 10 to 15 million deaths

You aren't doing the error bars on that quantity justice. There is not sufficient information from that era to get an accurate death toll. It could be 3 million or 30 million.

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Re:"Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026 (1960) by rancar2 on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:32AM (#50485913)
This was gathered from other research. Totally agree that it’s a wide range of estimates with lots of unknowns as you very well pointed out given the lack of dependable evidence and records from that period. Today’s DNA legacy is an interesting one.
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