The Great Khans, from Genghis to Khubilai, might be considered the thirteenth-century equivalent of today’s corporate raiders. Genghis started by uniting the disparate tribes of Mongolia which, in total, numbered about one million people. From this, he selected a hundred thousand fierce warriors and “merged” the neighboring countries into an empire that eventually stretched across a land mass in Eurasia that covered nearly 12 million contiguous square miles.
Under the Mongol Khans, the concept of a unified continent was formed for the first time.
Had the Mongols managed their acquisitions more astutely, and not lost control of their vast empire, the world would be quite different today.
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