So I'm reading a book about Ghengis Khan right now (I don't really know what made me want to learn about him all of a sudden), and I just don't think there's any arguing the fact that the Mongols really had it going on back then. Sure they killed a lot of people and looted a lot of cities, but I find it fascinating:
~ that women ran the whole empire while the men where away at war.
~ that they enjoyed religious freedoms that even modern countries can only dream about and that they would organize religious debates in which christians, muslims, buddhists and animists would argue their point of view just for the sport of it. Anyone that dared to speak with contempt against another was killed.
~ that the khans (emperors) happily divided looted wealth among all the people of the empire rather than hoarding it for themselves and their families, and made sure that widows and orphans recieved the same share as soldiers.
Sounds like a pretty nice place to me!
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sounds pretty cool to me. maybe i should have gone to mongolia.
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