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| Topic | so do you think in 700 years from now... |
| darkknight109 02/15/18 2:05:08 PM #9: | Troll_Police_ posted... ghenghis kahn for example gets credit for opening trade between europe and asia. alexander gets credit for bringing helenism to the middle east. both were not anything either of these monsters intended. they were genocidal maniacs, but once you actually get to a point where nobody living experienced this awful shit, or knew anyone who did, the narrative changes. If anything, I find that people tend to accentuate the negative more with Khan. While he was an absolute monster to anyone who opposed him (and I don't think I've ever seen anyone dispute that), he was actually reasonable as a ruler (for the time period, anyways), and instituted a number of remarkably progressive policies, like allowing conquered peoples to keep their culture and religion, which was virtually unheard of at the time. That and he usually gets tagged with a bunch of awful shit that he didn't actually do, like the sacking of Bagdhad (source of the famous "The Tigris ran red with blood and black with ink" descriptor) and the creation of germ warfare by hurling diseased corpses into a besieged city, both of which were carried out by his descendants long after his own death. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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