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To: Restorer
If we're going to talk sheer numbers, the Mongols probably killed 100M+ in less than a century,

I find that hard to believe. Ya, they killed any one who resisted, but I doubt it was 100 Million.

95 posted on 05/26/2005 1:22:21 PM PDT by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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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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