>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^Boise_Lib:
Great video, but I have one quibble.
16 million people can trace their ancestry back to one person, but that person is not Genghis Khan. It is Genghis Khan's mother. His brothers (the ones he didn't kill) followed his leadership and were able to have many, many wives and concubines. Between them they have 16 million descendants.

I thought the Khan lineage was traced on the Y-chromosome. Wouldn't that require that "one person" to be male?


I thought about that after I posted.

If that's the case, change that to Genghis' father.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

Great video, but I have one quibble.
16 million people can trace their ancestry back to one person, but that person is not Genghis Khan. It is Genghis Khan's mother. His brothers (the ones he didn't kill) followed his leadership and were able to have many, many wives and concubines. Between them they have 16 million descendants.


I thought the Khan lineage was traced on the Y-chromosome. Wouldn't that require that "one person" to be male?

Amazing! For some reason I've always admired the Mongols, they seem like histories ultimate unstoppable force, so it gave me a warm fuzzy to see their colors fill half of Europe at one point.

Mongol General: Conan! What is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

>> ^charliem:

What language are they speaking?
Certainly doesnt sound like Chinese....sounds more like Japanese.


The Mongolian language is one of its own; wiki says: As for the classification of the Mongolic family relative to other languages, the Altaic theory (which is increasingly less well received among linguists[28]) proposes that the Mongolic family is a member of a larger Altaic family that would also include the Turkic and Tungusic, and usually Korean and Japonic languages as well.

There are more Chinese languages/dialects than Mandarin, which is regarded as THE Chinese language to most people. Mandarin became the standard language in 1924, but the other dialects and variants are still spoken today.

A little on Genghis Khan's tactics:

After the Mongols surrounded your city:
On the first day they would erect a white tent--If the city surrendered the people would be spared (of course everything in the city would then belong to the Mongols.)

On the second day they would erect a red tent--If the city surrendered every male from the age of 13 up would be slaughtered.

On the third day they would erect a black tent--Everyone dies and the city is destroyed.

The Mongols would always leave a few survivors and give them horses, so that they could spread the word.

>> ^ChaosEngine:

>> ^Boise_Lib:
Fascinating person.
I recommend the series by Conn Iggulden
Genghis: Birth of an Empire
Genghis: Lords of the Bow
Genghis: Bones of the Hills
Khan: Empire of Silver
Very good historical fiction. It's fiction, but Iggulden does a very good job of staying true to history while writing a great novel.

I'd add the movie Mongol to that. Again, it's a dramatisation, but an excellent one...


From Russia, I bet they have an interesting take on this.
I love foreign movies.
Thanks, ChaosEngine.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

Fascinating person.
I recommend the series by Conn Iggulden
Genghis: Birth of an Empire
Genghis: Lords of the Bow
Genghis: Bones of the Hills
Khan: Empire of Silver
Very good historical fiction. It's fiction, but Iggulden does a very good job of staying true to history while writing a great novel.


I'd add the movie Mongol to that. Again, it's a dramatisation, but an excellent one...

Looked more like Hell's Angels and Mongols vs. asphalt.

This video is a very biased, Euro-centric view of the world.

11th Century and on was a very turbulent era in Far east Asia. Battles between Temujin's Mongols against Jamukha's Jadrans, Goryo against the United Mongols, the Jurchens versus the Song Dynasty, multiple rebellions against the Yuan dynasty, the list goes on and on.

Majority of the battles from far east Asia seems to heavily focus on Japan, only because westerners love how Japanese are all 'bad-ass Ninjas with Samurai swords'. Woo Hoo.

props to the Mongols for their early efforts.

Mongols used to fuck their enemies like this.

"You're beautiful in your wrath. Were Wang younger and more nimble at dodging swords, I might give you to him and keep the furs. For they, too, are beautiful."

"I shall keep you, Bortai. I shall keep you, and responding to my passion, your hatred will kindle into love."

"Before that day dawns, Mongol, the vultures will have feasted on your heart!"

*SMACK!*

Yeah, bitch deserved it.

But seriously. John Wayne as a Mongolian?? I'm not sold.

I have yet to see a game depict an undisputable post-acolaptic reality - sexual slavery. I will make my son watch Mongol over and over to perfect his woman-snatching skills. Or maybe Waterworld.

^"The United States is responsible for the biggest acts of mass murder in the history of man."

You couldn't be further from the truth.

Congo Free State: 8,000,000
Russian Civil War: 9,000,000
Nazi Camps: 12,000,000
USSR under Stalin: 20,000,000
Mongol conquests: 29,000,000
China under Mao Zedong: 40,000,000

...just to name a few.