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To: Ditto

Some of the numbers I've seen for the Mongol invasions:

Population of China reduced by half in 50 years, from 100M to 50M.

5M killed in Central Asia.

5M killed in Russia and Eastern Europe.

5 to 7M killed in Persia.

A little known fact: The Mongols for a while had a state policy of killing the entire population of China, with the idea that this would give them a lot more ground to pasture their flocks on. Until a Chinese official pointed out that hard-working Chinese peasants are a much more valuable crop per acre than sheep or horses.


100 posted on 05/26/2005 1:37:59 PM PDT by Restorer
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To: Restorer
According to Wikipedia only about 100 M was the number of people under their control at the height of their Empire.

Yes, they killed a lot, it took half of the Euroasian land mass to even have 100 million. That's a lot of people.

The 5 million for Central Asia is probably about right, but keep in mind, for some reason, they really didn't like Muslims much. They were much more "civilized" around Christians and Buddhists.

104 posted on 05/26/2005 1:54:19 PM PDT by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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