Genghis Khan: Father To Millions

Discovery News ^ | 6-22-2004 | Rossella Lorenzi

[meadsjn]

Mongoloid. It is a slur refering to people with Downs Syndrome. It's at least 50 years out of date and extremely offensive.

Mongoloid is also one of the three racial classifications that make up the human species (probably not politically correct anymore). The other two classifications were Caucasoid and Negroid. Encyclopedias had lengthy articles on these terms before pervasive ignorance came into vogue.

[Cronos]

But one of Kublai's predecessor's and Genghis' successor's did send an envoy to another Pope as a Mongol army was moving into the Middle East.

hmm.. thank you for correcting me, I did not know that.

[Cronos]

you mean around the time the Mongols destroyed Baghda and the Umayyad (or was it the Abassid) Caliphate?

[Cronos]

strange that they should call Genghis Khan a barbarian when he did manage to really unite east, west and south

[ZULU]

I think so.

Too bad they weren't more thorough and too bad they and the west didn't collaborate better to eliminate this plague from the Arabian desert.

[Cronos]

Yes, a real missed opportunity -- if we had converted the Turks to Christianity we could have smashed the moon cult

[SunkenCiv]

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[geologist]

Interesting post. Has there been any new finds revealed?

He is not as widely recognized as Alexander the Great. Yet it appears Genghis excelled; and did out perform Alexander.

[blam]

"Interesting post. Has there been any new finds revealed?"

Nothing recent to my knowledge.

[Larry Lucido]

Funny how they define “success.” I’d say Abraham was much more successful (though I wish he’d kept his mitts off Hagar).

[Larry Lucido]

I’m offended that you are bringing the Germans into this.

[Corin Stormhands]

I’m offended that you are bringing the Germans into this.

Well, the Germans are only slightly more offensive than cracking open a five-year-old thread.

I'm just sayin'...

[Larry Lucido]

Doggone SunkenCiv, I fall for this every time!

[mlo]

"Genghis Khan left a legacy shared by 16 million people alive today..."

Including Arthur Dent.

[blam]

Arthur Phillip Dent

[Centurion2000]

bump

[SunkenCiv]

Mea non culpa. (for a change)