"The Fierce Mongols and their Unforgiving Conquests" Topic

"Until the late 1100s, the Mongols were an obscure nomadic tribe. Roaming the Eurasian Steppe north of China, various Mongol factions fought each other and neighboring tribes, as they had done for centuries. By the early 1200s, the Mongols had been united under the leadership of a charismatic and capable leader named Temujin. After conquering and absorbing neighboring tribes, and forming them into a Mongol nation, Temujin adopted the title Genghis Khan, or Universal Ruler, and set out to conquer the world.

By the time they ran out of steam, the Mongols had conquered history's biggest contiguous land empire. It stretched from Korea and the Sea of Japan to the east, all the way to Hungary and the borders of Germany in the west, and from the frozen wastes of the Siberian tundra in the north, to the steaming jungles of Indochina in the south. During their conquests, the Mongols terrorized Eurasia and the known world to an unprecedented extent – unmatched before or since, and killed an estimated 40 million people. That 40 million figure was from a global population much smaller than today's. If extrapolated to modern population, it would be the equivalent of over 300 million people – or more than four times the deaths of World War I and World War II, combined…"

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