i dont care if this gets me cancelled i think some of you need to hear this. its not ok to stan genghis khan. he was problematic as hell
corvids
@dankwraith chinggis khaan unified the mongols and brought about one of the safest periods in eurasian history. because nobody was stupid enough to fight the mongol empire, and they encouraged trade and cross-cultural exchanges, which brought about quite possibly one of the greatest scientific golden ages in the world
tl;dr: h*ck off he's way less problematic than the alternatives. also spell his name right smh
@autistikai
Didn't he also end the Islamic golden age which gave us some pretty useful things like algebra?
@dankwraith
@professor_stoke @dankwraith as usual, it depends which historian you ask. it's definitely the easiest thing to point to as "okay it's definitely over here", but the abbasid caliphate had been largely irrelevant for centuries by the time the mongols came around, and some historians claim the golden age lasted until as late as the 16th century when it uh....became the ottoman golden age. general consensus tends to be that the islamic golden age had been in decline for some time before the mongols
@professor_stoke @dankwraith well then you heard wrong. those numbers may well be accurate, but chinggis khaan had died some thirty-odd years before the mongols besieged baghdad
@autistikai
But it wasn't just a peaceful change of power right? I've heard that he killed 75% of Iran's population which didn't recover until the mid 20th century
@dankwraith