PYF Historical Fun Fact: (USER LOSETH POSTYNG PRIVILYGES FOR FOUR AND TWENTY HOURS)

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The Something Awful Forums > Main > Post Your Favorite: Carefully Curated > PYF Historical Fun Fact: (USER LOSETH POSTYNG PRIVILYGES FOR FOUR AND TWENTY HOURS)

BlueDiablo: Aug 15, 2001; Slippery when sexy!

Peanut President posted:

Some small time ruler in central asia killed a peaceful trade caravan of mongolians. Genghis Khan had the guy captured alive and executed him by pouring molten silver into his eyes.

Uh, that "small time ruler in Central Asia" was the goddamn successor to the Persians

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_conquest_of_Khwarezmia

Edit: In fact, Ghengis Khan hosed Khwarezmia so hard that he undid thousands of years of careful irrigation projects and essentially reverted the area that is now modern Iran into a desert. And also he killed the last Caliph of Baghdad by rolling him into a carpet and trampling him with horses.

And depending on who you ask, he killed so many people that the average temperature of the Earth dropped a few degrees.

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