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Dschingis Khan. by Mackenzie, Franklin
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December 20, 2020
A classic biography of the one of the greatest conquerors and army leaders in known human history, who founded the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire in history of mankind. Mackenzie has extensive knowledge on the subject, but he also adds a lot of anthropological, ethnographical or ethnological details to the story. In that way, the Biography is often emphatically literalised, so that at moments it reads like a medieval heroic epic. Nevertheless, a great story of a man, who frightened China, Europe and Islamic Middle East out of their wits.
One thing I missed in the book was the notion of the huge genetic footprint of Dschingis Khan in the modern population of Asia. He fathered hundreds of children with a great variety of women. It seems the book is too old to enclose these sorts of modern studies and the author doesn't mention this part of his life well enough.
One thing I missed in the book was the notion of the huge genetic footprint of Dschingis Khan in the modern population of Asia. He fathered hundreds of children with a great variety of women. It seems the book is too old to enclose these sorts of modern studies and the author doesn't mention this part of his life well enough.
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