History vs. Genghis Khan - Alex Gendler

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He was one of the most fearsome warlords who ever lived, waging an unstoppable conquest across the Eurasian continent. But was Genghis Khan a vicious barbarian or a unifier who paved the way for the modern world? Alex Gendler puts this controversial figure on trial in History vs Genghis Khan.
Lesson by Alex Gendler, animation by Brett Underhill.

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  • @josephaugustine4876
    @josephaugustine48766 жыл бұрын

    British empire was responsible for almost 29 million deaths in India alone during 19 th century. But unfortunately history is always written by winners

  • @yuritarded5245

    @yuritarded5245

    5 жыл бұрын

    Joseph Augustine in genghis khans time,he was responsible for killing 11% of EARTHS population.If genghis khan didnt die he would have slaughtered the ancestors of the 29million deaths in india

  • @agrimchauhan8512

    @agrimchauhan8512

    5 жыл бұрын

    Joseph Augustine I agree...

  • @parthp9595

    @parthp9595

    5 жыл бұрын

    Harish Ganesan that's the stupidest thing I've heard. Would you think differently if your parents and yourself were part of that "non significant percentage" ? Every single life is equally important regardless of global demographics. Get some sense into your worthless head.

  • @harishganesan3575

    @harishganesan3575

    5 жыл бұрын

    Have you even heard of the word called 'sarcasm' ?

  • @Kaisaltan

    @Kaisaltan

    5 жыл бұрын

    Genghis Khan caused global cool down lol

  • @Egonsraad
    @Egonsraad4 жыл бұрын

    "He killed 40 Million people." "Ye but the postal system."

  • @autismobinch135

    @autismobinch135

    4 жыл бұрын

    U.S Meridan He did not kill that many people

  • @parsananmon

    @parsananmon

    4 жыл бұрын

    This series can be ridicilous sometimes

  • @THX-bz8bi

    @THX-bz8bi

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@parsananmon i agree

  • @ryancoopersmith3862

    @ryancoopersmith3862

    4 жыл бұрын

    So did the Achaemenids, without that level of destruction along the way

  • @r4d1u58

    @r4d1u58

    4 жыл бұрын

    Postman Khan

  • @galaxywavemoreno5151
    @galaxywavemoreno51514 жыл бұрын

    I love how the Judge is learning while they both argue or debate.

  • @ultimatebishoujo29

    @ultimatebishoujo29

    3 жыл бұрын

    I know right?

  • @blauwbeer556

    @blauwbeer556

    3 жыл бұрын

    It is like a representation of us, amazing isn't it.

  • @ultimatebishoujo29

    @ultimatebishoujo29

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@blauwbeer556 definitely

  • @harleydavidson1014

    @harleydavidson1014

    3 жыл бұрын

    Kinda like real court? Who woulda thought? Neat huh?

  • @abhijitmandal894

    @abhijitmandal894

    3 жыл бұрын

    That is because the Judge is the personification of the audience

  • @Turnc
    @Turnc3 жыл бұрын

    When you are so successful that you get canceled 793 years later on twitter.

  • @oyuntuyaragchaa3263

    @oyuntuyaragchaa3263

    3 жыл бұрын

    But never forgotten in our heart

  • @francisbacon4363

    @francisbacon4363

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ghengis khan is my favourite, he's like the eminem of the old times, he's good but people still hate him for some reason

  • @mridulkanti1995

    @mridulkanti1995

    3 жыл бұрын

    Twitter should cancelled itself

  • @tanmaygusain1316

    @tanmaygusain1316

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mridulkanti1995 the app or the twitter community?

  • @dogebitch647

    @dogebitch647

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@francisbacon4363 I dont like mongolia in general

  • @iamb34
    @iamb345 жыл бұрын

    "Careful what you call him. You MAY b related." "...Wut?" I died at that part his face lol!

  • @omarymombury3189

    @omarymombury3189

    5 жыл бұрын

    Me too

  • @aerinsalgado4969

    @aerinsalgado4969

    4 жыл бұрын

    I had to watch a different video in class and it said the same thing. Really crazy

  • @bappi3049

    @bappi3049

    4 жыл бұрын

    It is true.

  • @lazice

    @lazice

    4 жыл бұрын

    *w h a t* .

  • @blueeye2281

    @blueeye2281

    4 жыл бұрын

    Like me

  • @hackergiraffe2485
    @hackergiraffe24855 жыл бұрын

    "You must have done great sins because your God sent punishment like me upon to you" -Genghis Khan

  • @user-yn6ju3uk9o

    @user-yn6ju3uk9o

    5 жыл бұрын

    That's what he said to caliph of Khoresmian empire

  • @Jobe-13

    @Jobe-13

    4 жыл бұрын

    hacker giraffe Wow

  • @josephstalin7506

    @josephstalin7506

    4 жыл бұрын

    "If God wanted you to live he would not have created me" -Soldier

  • @nshk7163

    @nshk7163

    4 жыл бұрын

    Damn, is this really true ? Btw i dont get the message of this video, are they saying that genghis khan's action were good in some cases ?

  • @moonlightikah6753

    @moonlightikah6753

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@nshk7163 the video is not trying to label him as an amazing leader or a monster. its up to you to choose what you want to see.

  • @peaceuchiha485
    @peaceuchiha4854 жыл бұрын

    The defendent could have said"He killed millions but also created millions"

  • @MyHeartBeatistheWorld

    @MyHeartBeatistheWorld

    3 жыл бұрын

    Peace Uchiha 😂

  • @gunter6377

    @gunter6377

    3 жыл бұрын

    Killed 40 Created 12 I see why he didn't

  • @ultimatebishoujo29

    @ultimatebishoujo29

    3 жыл бұрын

    True that

  • @thepersonbehindelonmusksuc1634

    @thepersonbehindelonmusksuc1634

    2 жыл бұрын

    He killed millions But also created billions

  • @stickwood8071

    @stickwood8071

    2 жыл бұрын

    There's no "created" . Killing is killing. If i kill a guy and give birth to 2 kids does it mean am a good person??

  • @Redrum101896
    @Redrum1018963 жыл бұрын

    My family and I use to laugh about the line, "Almost anyone could be related to him. Until my dad took a DNA test for fun and found out we are descendants through him. We are Puerto Ricans and it was the last thing we expected. 😂😂😂😂

  • @googane7755

    @googane7755

    3 жыл бұрын

    daamm that must feel weird that you are related to a warlord that lived 800 years ago on the other side of the planet

  • @chevalierdeloccident5949

    @chevalierdeloccident5949

    2 жыл бұрын

    Related how? smh

  • @Teemo6544

    @Teemo6544

    2 жыл бұрын

    Which DNA test did you use? questioning the accuracy of that.

  • @sancharisaha1607

    @sancharisaha1607

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ohh we too took a DNA test out of curiosity, but we're found to be negative, the doctor said you're one of the rare people who are not connected to him

  • @chevalierdeloccident5949

    @chevalierdeloccident5949

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sancharisaha1607 This is getting childish. Puerto Ricans aren't related to Mongols. Not even remotely Period. Silly.

  • @mavikartal7775
    @mavikartal77754 жыл бұрын

    Cenghis Khan is the best. Why? He conquered Russia IN WINTER

  • @ight2060

    @ight2060

    4 жыл бұрын

    could u explain this lol?

  • @kevin8712

    @kevin8712

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ight2060 No country was able to fight Russia and win because their armies starved to death in the winter.

  • @cipher8400

    @cipher8400

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@kevin8712 genghis khan army took cattle and stuff with them and set up colonies, so it was probably easier, i think dunno.

  • @jacobblack1640

    @jacobblack1640

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mavi Kartal 😎😎😎😎😎

  • @obama7792

    @obama7792

    4 жыл бұрын

    i tried doing that once.. never again

  • @intirobinson7074
    @intirobinson70746 жыл бұрын

    When the judge shouted "KHANNNNNNNN!!!" I was dying hahahahaha

  • @bhill7053

    @bhill7053

    5 жыл бұрын

    Captain Kirk would be proud

  • @mergeno1049

    @mergeno1049

    5 жыл бұрын

    khan literally means king in our language

  • @ksastudio2095

    @ksastudio2095

    4 жыл бұрын

    Shah Rukh Khan 😂

  • @ThomasTHEONEANDONLY

    @ThomasTHEONEANDONLY

    4 жыл бұрын

    Prosecutor: I see your honor is familiar with Ghengis Khan.

  • @jackleon66

    @jackleon66

    4 жыл бұрын

    I thought he said something, you know what I mean

  • @harshshukla2412
    @harshshukla24123 жыл бұрын

    I want them to make History vs British Empire They killed all over the globe They did caused about a 100 million casualities Especially in India The history is always undermined.

  • @helium-379

    @helium-379

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you really think about it no group in the world is ever crystal clean. There are always blemishes on them. Those who think themselves morally superior often turn around and do exactly what they preached against.

  • @CraicDealer

    @CraicDealer

    3 жыл бұрын

    They starved 4 million Irish people to death during the Great Hunger alone, not to mention the hundreds of thousands killed by Cromwell and others, before and after. It is remembered in Ireland, as well as the "famine" in India

  • @sambingham1196

    @sambingham1196

    3 жыл бұрын

    History is written by the winners unfortunately, hopefully in the next few decades the British and their politicians will recognise the crimes their empire committed across the globe. Horrible entity.

  • @koustavchatterjee8645

    @koustavchatterjee8645

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sambingham1196 That's what empires do. British Empire simply was more successful. Saying as an Indian.

  • @urielantoniobarcelosavenda780

    @urielantoniobarcelosavenda780

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@koustavchatterjee8645 well, you rigth, thats what empires do, but, a genocide is something very... It's just not good

  • @brehisvdnd1289
    @brehisvdnd12893 жыл бұрын

    Who’s here after twitter decided to cancel him 800 years later.

  • @revthescatman137

    @revthescatman137

    3 жыл бұрын

    What?? Your kidding right? Is it about the new Mulan remake

  • @brehisvdnd1289

    @brehisvdnd1289

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@revthescatman137 no sadly

  • @JH-wi2xr

    @JH-wi2xr

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wait what?

  • @danielawesome36

    @danielawesome36

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@brehisvdnd1289 Are you serious? What's it about?

  • @akundaruratkalalupa9710

    @akundaruratkalalupa9710

    3 жыл бұрын

    cancel culture is the definition of regressive

  • @alboshajdari3316
    @alboshajdari33165 жыл бұрын

    Do "History vs. Hitler" I double dare you TED-Ed

  • @inotaishu1

    @inotaishu1

    5 жыл бұрын

    I would love to see that, after all, they could use this as a blueprint.

  • @boistired6825

    @boistired6825

    5 жыл бұрын

    Albos Hajdari His story is actually really interesting. He did have a terrible childhood (not surprised) and dealt with abuse. He wanted to become an artist. I actually saw his artwork and he was a talented young man but for some reason he didn’t make it into art school and then he served in WW1 and that changed him as well. He felt empty afterwards and still wished to die as an artist. The only people who would befriend him were a group of anti semites who taught him how to hate the Jews and the rest is history. We could also add religion into his defense because what people of the church were saying about Jews at the time and even today, really influenced his thoughts on wanting to do anything for the church.

  • @hanngoc-eo8dp

    @hanngoc-eo8dp

    5 жыл бұрын

    I would love to

  • @arcfilms5645

    @arcfilms5645

    5 жыл бұрын

    Well the Nazis did push science forward and warfare with their unmaned tank

  • @declanfoley7562

    @declanfoley7562

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@boistired6825 worth mentioning that Jew's were blamed in a very anti Semitic way in the Bible until doctrine was changed in 1964(for Christ death etc ) . In turn at Hitler's time anti Semetism was huge in Lithuania,Poland,Germany etc ...Jew's were hated for religious reasons,jealousy then they retreated so your contact with Jew's would be rent etc and they also controlled parties in a soros like way ....so they were really hated (unfairly)

  • @timothymclean
    @timothymclean7 жыл бұрын

    Was Khan a brutal conqueror or a great unifier? Yes, he was both of those things. It's absurd to claim that he was a terrible monster without any redeeming qualities, but it's equally absurd to emphasize the good while downplaying or ignoring his negative qualities.

  • @alexkhan2000

    @alexkhan2000

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yes, just like Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon.

  • @ganymedeflowers8998

    @ganymedeflowers8998

    7 жыл бұрын

    Very astute. It's a rather illogical idea to assume that he absolutely had to either be a monster or a saint and it is pleasing to see that there are at least some people who understand that. My commendations.

  • @fasiapulekaufusi6632

    @fasiapulekaufusi6632

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Reasonableidiocy Yes. To fully understand the actions and decisions the Khan made one must actually live in the time era.

  • @fasiapulekaufusi6632

    @fasiapulekaufusi6632

    7 жыл бұрын

    The sense of morality we have today is way different than that of the time the Khan lived in.

  • @fasiapulekaufusi6632

    @fasiapulekaufusi6632

    7 жыл бұрын

    For a peasant to die at the hands of a Lord, it is not seen as obscene. For a peasant to kill a Lord? A heavy bounty on his head. This was the norm of everyday life in these times. By the way, I am not one to justify killings and mass murders but even in Europe or anywhere else in the world at that time, death was as common as the flu.

  • @tselmegerdemsaikhan6006
    @tselmegerdemsaikhan60063 жыл бұрын

    I love this video, as a Mongolian myself. The way they pronounced the name was very good undoubtedly one of the best pronouncing I’ve ever heard in foreign youtube videos

  • @kurdtcobain2896

    @kurdtcobain2896

    2 жыл бұрын

    Harin th

  • @karltina6199

    @karltina6199

    Жыл бұрын

    he was actually half nomadic turkic tribe and half mongolian

  • @kevinbergin9971

    @kevinbergin9971

    10 ай бұрын

    "Foreign" KZread videos?

  • @31TeV

    @31TeV

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@kevinbergin9971 Yes, I assume as in non-Mongolian from the context.

  • @zaaviya-e-Ghalib

    @zaaviya-e-Ghalib

    5 ай бұрын

    You mean the videos by the "western" KZreadrs, because almost all the east/south Asian & middle eastern countries call him ”Chingez Khan"

  • @annikachristensen4323
    @annikachristensen43233 жыл бұрын

    "He killed 40 million people..." Thor: He's adopted...

  • @prakashmc2842

    @prakashmc2842

    2 жыл бұрын

    LOL

  • @surfwavtv4087
    @surfwavtv40878 жыл бұрын

    If Genghis Khan was European he would be called Genghis the Great lol

  • @berhesbeeter

    @berhesbeeter

    8 жыл бұрын

    Dude i am Mongolian and we know better then u if we talk on Chingis Khaan

  • @surfwavtv4087

    @surfwavtv4087

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Barhasbaatar Chimed-ochir I'm saying chingus isn't given his proper spot in history because he's not European. So western history covers up his accomplishments and demonize him as a murderer not a great leader.

  • @surfwavtv4087

    @surfwavtv4087

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Hugh Jenas McGraw hill , American high school textbooks

  • @prestonh.2771

    @prestonh.2771

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Hugh Jenas Yeah, American text books tend to have a bit of a bias on... well... everything.

  • @surfwavtv4087

    @surfwavtv4087

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Renzhi Wang he was but you know how Europeans do they'll rewrite history covering up all his atrocities while highlighting everything positive about him lol

  • @dakotawilliams9791
    @dakotawilliams97918 жыл бұрын

    If you're invading West to East you're a great leader, if you're invading East to West you're a barbarian. Genghis Khan legacy shows he's a great leader.

  • @dakotawilliams9791

    @dakotawilliams9791

    8 жыл бұрын

    Puglous Khan does not mean "great" it means "leader." Also, Genghis did far more good than bad. War is war people died. He only destroyed cities that rebelled, as did Alexander. And Genghis did not kill 11% of the population, he and his descendants did, and he had many descendants. Also, Genghis had unparalleled peace (the Pax Mongolica) in his country, real religious freedoms (not to be seen again until "modern" times), as well a a real merit system instead of blood promotions.

  • @kagenlim5271

    @kagenlim5271

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Dakota Williams and genocide is genocide

  • @dakotawilliams9791

    @dakotawilliams9791

    8 жыл бұрын

    kagen lim I agree, but I disagree that it was genocide. He had no intentions of destroying cultures and peoples. He merely had to make examples. Every culture under Mongol rule flourished because of how incredibly tolerant Genghis Khan was with other religions and cultures.

  • @kagenlim5271

    @kagenlim5271

    8 жыл бұрын

    Dakota Williams disagreed.Kiev Rus,northern China are all examples of Genghis khan taste of extermination of foreign cultures other than his own

  • @dakotawilliams9791

    @dakotawilliams9791

    8 жыл бұрын

    kagen lim what do you mean? Mongol culture embraced Chinese culture. Just look at the literature that came out under mongol rule. The Russian states also had their culture grow and evolve into the modern pan-slavic ideals (which only spread throughout the Russian states after Mongol rule) we've seen in history and today. The thought that Genghis destroyed culture because it wasn't mongol just can not be supported

  • @Ruefintheshark
    @Ruefintheshark2 жыл бұрын

    I learned about Genghis Khan this year in my history class and I personally think that he can’t be considered fully good or bad. Despite the fact that his campaigns were brutal and merciless, he did do all of the positive things mentioned in the video as well. And one of his brutal acts was deserved because this man had killed his men and taken the stuff they tried to trade with them or something like that, well they came back and poured molten silver into the man’s head. I don’t remember all of the specific details of that off of the top of my head, but I think it was justified. I also think his attacking of the chin dynasty was justified, but was still very brutal. Overall, he did a lot of good but he was pretty brutal in how he achieved it.

  • @refl1x362

    @refl1x362

    2 жыл бұрын

    True every invasions of his war was justified.

  • @Renatus__
    @Renatus__3 жыл бұрын

    My man dominated the world like he was playing a war game in easy mode

  • @dandeliondandylion4517
    @dandeliondandylion45174 жыл бұрын

    "And what's so great about invasion and slaughter" Almost every country ever: *sweatdrops*

  • @phuongvu527

    @phuongvu527

    3 жыл бұрын

    :))) i just love that none dare to argue with this 😂

  • @coronavirusokboomer9537

    @coronavirusokboomer9537

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don't think it's wise to put our modern moral standards against old morals

  • @coronavirusokboomer9537

    @coronavirusokboomer9537

    3 жыл бұрын

    What was great about invasion nd slaughter was defending yourself, if you had big neighbors you would have to get rid of them or else they might get rid of you

  • @calvinblanes1574

    @calvinblanes1574

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Almost every country ever" Which one in America beside the United States?

  • @ibnbattuta7031

    @ibnbattuta7031

    3 жыл бұрын

    so? Murder is murder. People were horrified at it in the time as well.

  • @PsychoticSpartan
    @PsychoticSpartan8 жыл бұрын

    Genghis Khan was doing what pretty much every other warlord had done until modern times. Except he did it better (or worse depending on perspective).

  • @PhanteusZ

    @PhanteusZ

    8 жыл бұрын

    +PsychoticSpartan Exactly. He was no different than other conquerers. He was simply a better military tactician than the other conquerors at that time, who had the desire to unite the world under one empire.

  • @BifronsCandle

    @BifronsCandle

    8 жыл бұрын

    +PsychoticSpartan Most warlords weren't as thorough in their destruction as the Mongols.

  • @PsychoticSpartan

    @PsychoticSpartan

    8 жыл бұрын

    TheBrother171 Because unlike other conquerors he had a highly mobile and effective fighting force that could clear the distance that most other armies just could not. Like I said he was better at it than others before him.

  • @BifronsCandle

    @BifronsCandle

    8 жыл бұрын

    PsychoticSpartan That is a false equivalence. Many rulers were in a perfect position to massacre their enemies down to the last child and destroy cultural wealth, yet Genghis Khan carried it through.

  • @PsychoticSpartan

    @PsychoticSpartan

    8 жыл бұрын

    SlyBiffrons And then? Those people were not conquerors. Try to stay on subject.

  • @spn.academy
    @spn.academy3 жыл бұрын

    This is a really great series! We frequently use them in our classes, our students love it. Congratulations, TED-Ed

  • @robbieaulia6462
    @robbieaulia64623 жыл бұрын

    "Carefull what you call him, you may be related" That killed me XD

  • @Kendrahf
    @Kendrahf8 жыл бұрын

    I've always found Genghis to be a very interesting historical character and yet he's hardly ever mentioned. We get a ton of Alexander the Great related stuff but almost none of the Khan when, realistically, Genghis actually conquered twice as much land as Alexander the Great. And he's the father of all boot strap/self-made man ideals too. He was born to a minor chief and the second (stolen) wife in a small tribe. He went off to his betrothed's tribe as was the custom but then his father died and he was sent home. Where upon he and his mother, as well as the first wife and all the children, were abandoned for fear of starvation, his father's enemies, and not wanting to be led by young boys. After several years of living in Mongolia with just his mothers and siblings, he was captured and turned into a slave. He escaped and convinced the family of his betrothed to let the two of them marry. They did and she became a kidnapped bride herself. He hunted them down and actually rescued her (this would result in the birth of a son that they weren't sure was the Khan's.) Afterward? He went on to unite the tribes and conquer the world, because why stop there, right? How is this not the most epic 'self-made man' tale out there?

  • @kurojima

    @kurojima

    8 жыл бұрын

    Kendrahf true, genghis conquered a lot of territory, if you only use size as a measure, but lots of it is vast barely populated space with no possible resistance - while alexander conquered the most powerful countries and cultures of his time, densely populated and highly advanced

  • @62001a

    @62001a

    8 жыл бұрын

    The more I read the history about him, the more I realize he destined to be King. From 9 years old, after his father departure, his father's enemy never let his family lead peaceful life. He did not have much choices, either be strong or die. He protected his family from early ages and fought with many tribes in order to survive. That's how he protected his family and himself.

  • @Kendrahf

    @Kendrahf

    8 жыл бұрын

    kurojima What? China and Russia were just chump change? Genghis conquered all the surrounding countries/lands around him. He conquered Russia, for pities sake, a feat that has yet to be repeated even in this modern age. Perhaps if Hitler had followed Genghis' example instead of Napoleon, things would've ended differently. He had a lot of resistance and he came up with unique battle strategies to deal with them. Later on, he was able to talk people into submission... And how is this less admirable than Alexander? He used his brains as well as military might to do what he did and he wasn't a straight up conqueror. Which circles back to the truest point of all: Genghis wasn't trained to fulfill this role nor did he have a ready made army at his hand OR even a country to fund his wars. He was abandoned at age 9, left to die in the incredibly harsh land of Mongolia. Would Alexander the Great have survived if he and his mother and siblings were abandoned at age 9? Would he have gotten free when he was turned into a slave? Would he have applied the hardships of his youth to rule fairly over his conquered lands? Probably not. Genghis is by far the more intelligent and cunning conqueror. He had ethics that he stuck to. The video mentions using people as shields? Guess which people? Why, the people who'd betrayed their own. You were fucked if you did something like that, even if it benefited Genghis. You can't even compare him to Alexander. Hell, after he conquered Egypt, he didn't even have the logistics of needing a steady supply of food which made everything he did a thousand times more easy. Alexander conquered a lot, it's true. But he can't compete against Genghis.

  • @kurojima

    @kurojima

    8 жыл бұрын

    dont be mad, but "russia" at the time of genghis was nothing more than a few backwards duchys competing for power, nothing scare for him - china was a great campaign, and the arabian peninsula, but both werent united anymore, china was split up in factions, and the arabian peninsula was split in different countries - some wanted to apeal to genghis from the beginning - and the rest of genghis conquering was easy - he barely touched india or central europe - compare that to alexander who conquered persia and india and much more of the old world, the mayor powers of its time

  • @Kendrahf

    @Kendrahf

    8 жыл бұрын

    kurojima Oh, I'm not mad. LOL. Why does not agreeing equal being mad? I just don't agree with you. Pound for pound, Genghis Khan was simply a thousand times more impressive than Alexander. You can quibble about him not conquering Persia and down play his accomplishments because of that but it doesn't change the fact. Alexander was raised to lead. He had Ancient Greece behind him. Genghis had nothing, was less then nothing, and still conquered twice as much as Alexander. He didn't even have so much as a tribe when he started out, much less a giant war machine line Ancient Greece. =P

  • @giordanokruger3826
    @giordanokruger38266 жыл бұрын

    The tendency to glorify expansionist european empires as cradles of civilization (Rome, Machedonia, The franks, etc) while dismissing Ghenghis Khan as "Barbaric" is a pretty colossal historical bias.

  • @ShaunhanM

    @ShaunhanM

    5 жыл бұрын

    Part of the issues (not all of it) is that the Mongols didn't keep written accounts. Most of our knowledge of the time is written by those who feared and despised them. This also partially true for many non European empires

  • @maksimlozanoski

    @maksimlozanoski

    5 жыл бұрын

    "Machedonia" lol

  • @melindam2776

    @melindam2776

    5 жыл бұрын

    They didn't kill of most of the population thought, did they? Some countries attached by the Mongols lost at least 3rd of they population. That's not the same level

  • @phuongvu527

    @phuongvu527

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@melindam2776 i think it's a strategy to strike fear to enemies's heart. Purge a rebell city and 100 cities will surrender/not stand again. Reduce much more unnecessary bloodshed. But i could be wrong anyway

  • @ObjectsInMotion

    @ObjectsInMotion

    5 жыл бұрын

    There was no glorification at all in this video???

  • @lac_trn
    @lac_trn3 жыл бұрын

    Genghis khan got cancelled he’s dropping a apology vid tmro

  • @fredbarker9201

    @fredbarker9201

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂😂

  • @tseevanidermaa3225

    @tseevanidermaa3225

    2 жыл бұрын

    Isn’t it because non Mongolians were making false things up?? I would be shocked if one historian read the book named Mongoliin nuush tovchoi which has the exact facts of every thing about Gengis khan

  • @linkh1435
    @linkh14354 жыл бұрын

    I really like that they add some character and personality to the two debaters and especially the judge (I laughed so hard when he screams). This series is awesome too, viewing controversial history figures in a different perspective. They give us both good and dark sides of these people and show how complex history, as well as human, is.

  • @GlitchyShadow13
    @GlitchyShadow138 жыл бұрын

    now that's what i call a mighty... *khanqueror*

  • @LuxroyLux

    @LuxroyLux

    8 жыл бұрын

    +GlitchyShadow13 kek

  • @thegeneralissimo6172

    @thegeneralissimo6172

    8 жыл бұрын

    OUT,NOW

  • @oakleafwarrior9733

    @oakleafwarrior9733

    8 жыл бұрын

    stop it!!!!! get out!

  • @iammustafa

    @iammustafa

    7 жыл бұрын

    damn

  • @fasiapulekaufusi6632

    @fasiapulekaufusi6632

    7 жыл бұрын

    ok children chill out. Your all probably descendants of the great Khan anyways

  • @NichoTBE
    @NichoTBE8 жыл бұрын

    he used biological weapons lol

  • @1995yuda

    @1995yuda

    8 жыл бұрын

    NichoTBE Yup. He kinda did.

  • @mikeparry1089

    @mikeparry1089

    8 жыл бұрын

    1995yuda Actually that was his kid that reportedly used bio weapons, and they had no concept that the bodies would infect people either. They threw the bodies over the wall to instill fear, panic, and to annoy the city into opening its doors to end the siege.

  • @1995yuda

    @1995yuda

    8 жыл бұрын

    Mike Parry No offence but I'd take my chances with TED's info...I mean,they are a good,reliable source. But you make sense for whatever that's worth.

  • @IordanIovkov

    @IordanIovkov

    8 жыл бұрын

    NichoTBE Biological weapons were used throughout history. People in any time period tended to use any method they knew. It's no coincidence that they say "anything goes in love and war". For example, poisoning the enemy water supply with dead bodies was a well-known tactic. The part where they said Genghis was no differen than his contemporaries was not an exaggeration.

  • @pablocolunga9658

    @pablocolunga9658

    8 жыл бұрын

    Milen Semkov Hernan Cortes used that tactic to defeat the Aztecs.

  • @TouristAcceptable
    @TouristAcceptable3 жыл бұрын

    If the teacher in my school taught me history like this, I would've ended with doing history honours

  • @yusra8245

    @yusra8245

    3 жыл бұрын

    brotha

  • @JotaroKujo-nj4bx

    @JotaroKujo-nj4bx

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thankfully I had a lot of influence from Assassins Creed and a legend of a 3rd grade elementary teacher so I’m currently in AP history courses and doing well in them

  • @IIIISai

    @IIIISai

    11 ай бұрын

    @@JotaroKujo-nj4bx fire

  • @kelseyajango4212
    @kelseyajango42122 жыл бұрын

    Great video! I'll be using it tomorrow in my 6th grade world history class. We're covering the Silk Road next, so it leads nicely into that, too. Thank you!

  • @bijeY2K
    @bijeY2K7 жыл бұрын

    Well, at least he has successfully finished his khanquests.

  • @110tacles

    @110tacles

    7 жыл бұрын

    Notchcrafter​ 1 who? 2.where is slenderman?

  • @bijeY2K

    @bijeY2K

    7 жыл бұрын

    Mathor Sionur Me. I am Slenderman. Don't you look at my name?

  • @thesupertsar4473

    @thesupertsar4473

    7 жыл бұрын

    Dat pun do

  • @adamheitzmann1862

    @adamheitzmann1862

    7 жыл бұрын

    But Genghis Khan was still as badass as khan solo.

  • @110tacles

    @110tacles

    7 жыл бұрын

    Slender Man Sr. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh

  • @joujou264
    @joujou2647 жыл бұрын

    Why can't he be both, conqueror and unifier? Weren't Rome's leaders conquerors and unifiers? We remember their legacies neutrally or even kindly, so why not the Mongol's?

  • @PastPresented

    @PastPresented

    7 жыл бұрын

    Perhaps because the Romans (and the Chinese, whose ancient empire still exists, and is now thought of as a nation) brought clear cultural benefits with their conquests, whereas the Mongols really brought very little that hadn't been present before they arrived (for example, the Silk Road has existed for thousands of years).

  • @cptndunsel8088

    @cptndunsel8088

    7 жыл бұрын

    Leaving aside the toll in human lives, the Mongols did have some lasting impacts in the areas they conquered. In truth the Mongols did not contribute much new to science, technology or artwork directly, but they were good at spreading things around. When the Mongols went to Iran, they brought with them rice from China. They also sent cobalt east to Chinese potters for use in their ceramics industry as blue paint. Mongolians built roads and established trade posts on the conquered territories, and were responsible for creating the first reliable mail network, that spanned from Kiev to Peking. Additionally, they are credited with the first cannons - combining European bell-casting techniques with Chinese gunpowder.

  • @PastPresented

    @PastPresented

    7 жыл бұрын

    david boell Rats were good at spreading plague around. Empires tend to need good mail networks, such as the Roman "Cursus Publicus" and its earlier Persian equivalent- and mail networks function better if there are roads and wayside halts, as again famously provided by the Roman Empire, which would probably have lasted somewhat longer if there hadn't been so many mounted invaders coming west out of the plains of Asia (the Mongols being just the culmination of many).

  • @stevenchoza6391

    @stevenchoza6391

    7 жыл бұрын

    PastPresented But the Mongols did have a good mail network in the Yam system.

  • @PastPresented

    @PastPresented

    7 жыл бұрын

    Steven Choza Yes, as mentioned by david boell in the post to which I was responding.

  • @congratsyoufoundmychannel1098
    @congratsyoufoundmychannel10983 жыл бұрын

    I love how the judge doesn't recognize people like Richard Nixon or King Henry VIII but shouts out loud when he sees Gengus Khan

  • @duolingoowl8207

    @duolingoowl8207

    3 жыл бұрын

    How could you forget your great great great great great great grandpa?

  • @alpactra1830
    @alpactra18303 жыл бұрын

    2:57 HIS FACE IM DYING 💀💀💀🤣🤣🤣

  • @CopyMirror
    @CopyMirror7 жыл бұрын

    Everyones calling him a Monster and I'm just sitting here like " it was the 13th Century"

  • @PastPresented

    @PastPresented

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yes, it was a century in which magnificent cathedrals and mosques were being built, universities were being founded, astonishingly accurate sea-charts were being made of the Mediterranean area (and the new maritime powers which were reducing piracy), the use of Indian powers-of-ten numerals was being spread throughout the world by Muslim traders, etc. etc.

  • @stevenchoza6391

    @stevenchoza6391

    7 жыл бұрын

    PastPresented And a period of very brutal warfare everywhere.

  • @PastPresented

    @PastPresented

    7 жыл бұрын

    Steven Choza A lot of the really brutal, culturally harmful stuff, was in the past for western Europe, and there was pretty good progress until the Black Death arrived in the 14th century (probably with the help of the Mongols).

  • @CopyMirror

    @CopyMirror

    7 жыл бұрын

    Wester Europe not Asia.

  • @stevenchoza6391

    @stevenchoza6391

    7 жыл бұрын

    ***** The ASIAN steppes...

  • @WAcrobat19
    @WAcrobat196 жыл бұрын

    I read a little biography. And it stated that if one of his troops had a family, and if he died, Genghis or his troops would give the loot to the family.

  • @naifalanezi1670

    @naifalanezi1670

    5 жыл бұрын

    Witted Acrobat19 Most of nations in the past used to do it.

  • @miishaa5463

    @miishaa5463

    5 жыл бұрын

    That is true if the soldier has killed a general or high ranking officer in that time he would get more loot because he did well

  • @SunflowerSpotlight

    @SunflowerSpotlight

    5 жыл бұрын

    His family was almost killed after his father died, so he knew firsthand how it impacted the widows and children. I always loved that part of his reforms.

  • @Jobe-13

    @Jobe-13

    5 жыл бұрын

    Witted Acrobat19 Wow

  • @anthonyc4138

    @anthonyc4138

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@SunflowerSpotlight yep

  • @kirstenparker-smith3137
    @kirstenparker-smith31372 жыл бұрын

    Wow. We preview/watch numerous videos to accompany history readings at home. This video is the best (under ten minutes) video we have watched. Both my children were able to grasp important details in recall. Unlike some others, I did not feel as though the video was downplaying the brutality of his actions. It also deals with the overall complication of relying on, often biased or limited, historical accounts to draw firm conclusions on complicated figures. Well done.

  • @shawnl2692
    @shawnl26923 жыл бұрын

    Ghost of Tsushima made me want to brush up on Ghengis Khan

  • @bossavocado5622

    @bossavocado5622

    3 жыл бұрын

    😅😅

  • @sarangerelbnbatbaatarbn5115

    @sarangerelbnbatbaatarbn5115

    3 жыл бұрын

    Zailku bol haraay shuu

  • @icescorpion7050

    @icescorpion7050

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sarangerelbnbatbaatarbn5115 hahaha tiim ee

  • @sarangerelbnbatbaatarbn5115

    @sarangerelbnbatbaatarbn5115

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@icescorpion7050 😂😂😂

  • @siddiquenadir44
    @siddiquenadir448 жыл бұрын

    If you start invading from east to west you are Genghis Khan the barbarian , If you start invading from west to east you are Alexander the great!!!

  • @tsaoh5572

    @tsaoh5572

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Puglous You actually don't know if Alexander did. There are way less written records from Alexander's time. What is known is that about 35% of the world population lived in that Persian empire, so Alexander could easily have killed about 7%. Most written records about the mongols are from Muslim or Chinese writers. Most written records about Alexander are from Greek/Macedonian writers. The winner determines the history, as always.

  • @trololo9407

    @trololo9407

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Puglous Nonsense, you think someone went and counted the number of dead left behind after the Mongols? The numbers were written mostly by those nations (Arabs, Persians, Rus), who hated Mongol invaders, and these figures are too exaggerated.

  • @Timurkhan8

    @Timurkhan8

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Puglous Cuz Alexander was a super gay!

  • @prabhchahal4492

    @prabhchahal4492

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Nadir Siddique smooth

  • @NmberOneNetsFan

    @NmberOneNetsFan

    7 жыл бұрын

    Nadir Siddique 👏👏👏

  • @MrBrightSide77
    @MrBrightSide777 жыл бұрын

    They say history is written by the victors. Alexander is titled Alexander the GREAT while Gengis Khan is portrayed as barbaric conquerer though they both did the same thing. The difference is that Greeks were advanced in literature and wrote great stories about their king wheras Mongols lagged behind in literature. All the stories we read about Gengis Khan were written by Chinese writers who were the enemies of mongols and sadly enemies don't write good things about each other. The fact is that every conqueror in the history of mankind had done barbaric acts and killed enemies.

  • @willsmith4776

    @willsmith4776

    6 жыл бұрын

    Uzumaki Narutoo, doesn't make it right though. We shouldn't be glorifying people like Alexander or Genghis. They were tyrants.

  • @aegidiuss4730

    @aegidiuss4730

    6 жыл бұрын

    Uzumaki Narutoo the reason he isn't called Genghis Khan the Great basically only Europeans use names like the Conqueror and the great.

  • @VALLAERION

    @VALLAERION

    6 жыл бұрын

    But Daenerys is different.

  • @luckerooni7628

    @luckerooni7628

    6 жыл бұрын

    Every nation's leader is a tyrant in a time of war, and in the context of the Genghis Khan, he united a nation of warring tribes oppressed by a powerful nation.

  • @tinchosabala

    @tinchosabala

    6 жыл бұрын

    Just like Ying Yang, every good has it's bad and viceversa. It's the same thing here

  • @StarBoundFables
    @StarBoundFables Жыл бұрын

    Wowza, I love how thought-provoking these TedEd vids are 😃 This 1 inspired an awesome idea for a time-travelling story which I now really want to write 🙏🏼

  • @javkhlanenkhbaatar3843
    @javkhlanenkhbaatar38432 жыл бұрын

    "You can't just put a mass murderer on your currency." Me, a mongolian: *laughs*

  • @fishingwithkirby3989
    @fishingwithkirby39894 жыл бұрын

    In other words Khan was no different from many empires around him for his time. The only difference is that he did it better. He brought as much success as he brought suffering.

  • @piercebataa3250

    @piercebataa3250

    4 жыл бұрын

    absurd potato but people need to understand his intentions were not to slaughter ruin people’s lifes kill them for no reason he always gave the option to surrender

  • @giorgiannicartamancini3917

    @giorgiannicartamancini3917

    3 жыл бұрын

    He still was a bit more violent, and moreover his empire quickly fell after his death, like Alexander the Great's

  • @piercebataa3250

    @piercebataa3250

    3 жыл бұрын

    Giorgianni Cartamancini name a single man who had a great empire that wasnt violent?

  • @piercebataa3250

    @piercebataa3250

    3 жыл бұрын

    Giorgianni Cartamancini and the only reason his empire fell after he died was only because of his greedy grandsons who fighted over land and power between each other not his fault at all!!

  • @giorgiannicartamancini3917

    @giorgiannicartamancini3917

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@piercebataa3250 All were of course, but not all are reported to use such extreme violence so often

  • @holytiramisu
    @holytiramisu7 жыл бұрын

    Can't blame him for being brutal. Imagine growing up with everyone plotting against you, your father killed by hostile tribes, growing up in barren land. Now imagine that you're trying to be nice, then your arch-enemy convinced your allies that you're a threat and then they turned against you, having missionary and embassador murdered, he won't survive without being harsh.

  • @Okuni_

    @Okuni_

    7 жыл бұрын

    can't imagine how he came up with the idea to invade those territories

  • @korstjesantens2903

    @korstjesantens2903

    7 жыл бұрын

    yeah, that's an excuse to kill 10% of the world population

  • @huseyinfurkankardiyen2104

    @huseyinfurkankardiyen2104

    7 жыл бұрын

    Chaktip Paiboon Temujin was not barbarian or evil , the world was , he was just strong , if europe could be strong as him , they would do what he did , and as we all know , they did after 1700's

  • @shadowsbane171091

    @shadowsbane171091

    7 жыл бұрын

    Karsten Smeesters if they didn't want to die, they should have surrendered, when change comes you either go with the flow or you fight it and pay the price, the rebelling cities fought and paid the price, like anyone would have done. It was 13th century, conquest was common place...and I don't know why Khan of all the conquers get more hate than others.... Rome, Ottomans, Alexander and others from that era weren't any better, it was just that Khan was way successful than the rest...and others if capable and successful would have done what he did, atleast he wasn't a bitch and was just.

  • @shadowsbane171091

    @shadowsbane171091

    7 жыл бұрын

    ***** So did other emperors..

  • @alisapuskala1437
    @alisapuskala1437 Жыл бұрын

    PLS CONTINUE THIS SERIES IT IS AWESOME

  • @joenathan8059
    @joenathan80593 жыл бұрын

    Anytime there is writing about civilizations being "barbaric", you should take it with a grain of salt as they are most likely written by enemies such as how the Vikings are portrayed

  • @taz0492

    @taz0492

    3 жыл бұрын

    exactly the indians did the same thing with the british

  • @Shivam-il2om

    @Shivam-il2om

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@taz0492 eh, you alright mate?

  • @taz0492

    @taz0492

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Shivam-il2om I could be wrong here but during school in England we were taught about our colonisation that the indains tried to take some sort of englightened high ground by calling us barbarians and savages.the school system weren't bais they did teach us the about bad things we did but this was before we had taken control of india. I was simply stating what I had been taught

  • @tseevanidermaa3225

    @tseevanidermaa3225

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! You are so right

  • @TheAlexgoodlife
    @TheAlexgoodlife7 жыл бұрын

    Every empire in the history of forever was brutal. The Roman empire, possibly the most progressive of empires was extremely brutal. Todays moral standards dont apply to those times.

  • @edrickhuge4637

    @edrickhuge4637

    6 жыл бұрын

    *Persian Empire coughts*

  • @bigartacademy7948

    @bigartacademy7948

    6 жыл бұрын

    40 million is most possibly wrong.

  • @Fpwc2

    @Fpwc2

    5 жыл бұрын

    Vinicius Domenighi they spread their killing through centuries, they might not have killed 40 million in a few decades but you can be sure they killed the equivalent of that in the 1500 years that they existed.

  • @ravenclawauror4668

    @ravenclawauror4668

    5 жыл бұрын

    Franco Centola, and? So then how many people would have been killed if the Khans ruled for 1500 years? Time frames matter. I can drink 10 bottles of vodka throughout the year and think nothing of it, but if I drank that in a single sitting I'd need to go to the hospital. If it only took a few decades for the Khans to kill the same amount of people the Romans did in a Millennia and a half, doesn't that set off a red flag for you? Impressive, but for all the wrong reasons

  • @Ali-uj9cx

    @Ali-uj9cx

    5 жыл бұрын

    Exactly, you see how western empires or leaders such as the Alexander the Great and the Roman Empire are now days glorified where Ghenghis Khan is considered a barbarian. When in truth, the Roman Empire committed atrocities in the same magnitude as the mongols, or probably even worse but hey we only talk about the good things the Romans did while we talk about the barbaric acts the Mongols committed.

  • @fawwadhussain5167
    @fawwadhussain51677 жыл бұрын

    He was born during the time of war. His tribe was constantly at war with other mongol tribes and with China (south east) and Khawarzami empire (south west). He only saw blood and destruction in his childhood. He was disavowed from his own tribe at age of 12 (same year he conquered his tribe back). He united mongol tribes(who were at war for more than 100 years) a task which was thought impossible at that time. He actually avoided bloodshed but couldn't stand disloyalty(which would have triggered another war among mongols). He saw destruction an effective tool to control not only his own people but others too. We should not forget the unforgiving times he lived in. He wasnt the only barbarian but he had power and he had most ruthless people from the sands of Gobi behind him so yes history only remembers him

  • @I_Boys
    @I_Boys3 жыл бұрын

    Hey bro, thanks for this! I'm in a Italian school, my professor told me that i should watch a story video, and it was this video! thanks for the help!!

  • @rexrj8705
    @rexrj87054 жыл бұрын

    If only debates were this calming

  • @galibahasin2397
    @galibahasin23974 жыл бұрын

    Do history vs. Winston Churchill and Robert Clive. Mention the barbaric colonialism period in the Indian Subcontinent where the death toll was way beyond WW2.

  • @Benji567891

    @Benji567891

    4 жыл бұрын

    The death toll in India was not above WW2, even tho it was high.

  • @LolLol-xo7uy

    @LolLol-xo7uy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Galiba Hasin you must be high ww2 have more deaths. But the indian death are still high

  • @Clipsiconic

    @Clipsiconic

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ulimi Ulabi no they saved them

  • @ankanmaiti9864

    @ankanmaiti9864

    3 жыл бұрын

    History vs Aurangazeb 😉

  • @sambingham1196

    @sambingham1196

    3 жыл бұрын

    *British people did not like that

  • @tabithaakers8732
    @tabithaakers87328 жыл бұрын

    It's incredible that people compare him to Hitler etc who was born over 700 years later. The whole point of history is to view someone within their context and not with modern day values that did not exist.

  • @XxAPartofMexX

    @XxAPartofMexX

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Tabitha Akers Only historians and researchers abide by this... even then some don't. I don't know how our education systems teach these things... but I'd be damned if they were doing it right. They clearly aren't as evidenced by the amount of people on the internet and in this comment sections don't get this. If you want thoughtful and meaningful conversations on History subjects like this you're going to want to be talking to actual historians and researchers through forums like /r/History, /r/AskHistorians, and other places like these.

  • @ineffablewhune

    @ineffablewhune

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Tabitha Akers No, actually that's not the "whole point" That is one USE OF history. History is simply the documentation of what allegedly transpired; how it transpired. To say there is a "whole point" is to imply that every historian across time was united under and single motive. The very fact that you assume some "point" upon the entire activity of [people recording events]... Indicates that you are projecting your own agendas onto history; rather than simply objectively analyzing it as simply a record of alleged events.

  • @ineffablewhune

    @ineffablewhune

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Tabitha Akers as for your point about "values that did not exist" Values are universal. If someone ripped your unborn child out of your womb... you and your friends would consider that "cruel" as you likely bled to death... regardless of what age you lived in. What DOES vary is what is ACCEPTED in society. a good example is how black people are treated in America. what is accepted has changed; but people always knew whipping a man to death was cruel. In Khan's day... if soldiers came and ripped your unborn son out of your wife's womb... leaving her to die in your arms... you just accepted it.

  • @wampower6848

    @wampower6848

    8 жыл бұрын

    Actually there's a section in the Advanced Placement History essay where students have to connect historical time periods together based on similar themes between the two time periods. So that seems like they're saying it's pretty important to compare disparate time periods.

  • @kagenlim5271

    @kagenlim5271

    8 жыл бұрын

    Genghis khan-Expansionist foreign policy,hell-bent on world domination Hitler -Expansionist foreign policy,hell-bent on world domination See it now?

  • @renatacorina2724
    @renatacorina27243 жыл бұрын

    Amei vídeo, conhecia por cima a história do Khan, mas resolvi pesquisar mais por conta do jogo Ghost of Tsushima 💕

  • @fornogoodreason551
    @fornogoodreason5514 жыл бұрын

    I love history, and this is above average, thank you very much.

  • @charmatic_yt2195
    @charmatic_yt21954 жыл бұрын

    “So who’s the defendant today?” “...” “KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNN!”

  • @omitted929

    @omitted929

    3 жыл бұрын

    Selmon bhai

  • @kashifabbas1725

    @kashifabbas1725

    3 жыл бұрын

    2020 khans chutiya khans fake khans

  • @ultimatebishoujo29

    @ultimatebishoujo29

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @kadrisemihguler808
    @kadrisemihguler8087 жыл бұрын

    Maybe this channel has the best content in youtube?

  • @TheLio666

    @TheLio666

    7 жыл бұрын

    more likely

  • @jasonxiong4572

    @jasonxiong4572

    7 жыл бұрын

    Search up "In A Nutshell" please!!!

  • @abhisheknaik1784

    @abhisheknaik1784

    7 жыл бұрын

    KADRİ SEMİH GÜLER watch 101 india channel

  • @tugsan5190

    @tugsan5190

    7 жыл бұрын

    TheLio666 in a nutshell mostly talking about posibilities and when he talks about the happened things, he explains it as he thinks. example; he said gmo is not harmful for food. but it harms more than it repairs. founding the true history and correcting the majority is far more harder than talking about relevant things

  • @bababooey6193

    @bababooey6193

    7 жыл бұрын

    walter white Yo Mr.White i thought you were dead.Where u at nowadays??

  • @python3416
    @python34162 жыл бұрын

    “He slaughtered thousands.” “Yeah, but so did other people.”

  • @stuartjsa139

    @stuartjsa139

    Жыл бұрын

    he killed 40 million, enough that some people claim it actually changed the carbon output of the earth.

  • @nuri2318
    @nuri23183 жыл бұрын

    I really like these history vs ..... videos they are pretty balanced . Really nice👍👏

  • @rust719
    @rust7197 жыл бұрын

    Call him whatever you want to, but he was the baddest of motherfuckers ever born. Respect Temujin!

  • @rust719

    @rust719

    7 жыл бұрын

    Mine too Omar, mine too. I have Persian, Arab & Indian ancestry.

  • @mukeshkanna2889

    @mukeshkanna2889

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Ahsan lol dude you're more complicated than a average girl

  • @rust719

    @rust719

    7 жыл бұрын

    Mukesh Kanna We was Kings n shit.

  • @cf7922

    @cf7922

    7 жыл бұрын

    How about Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, George Washington (who was a slave owner)? Do they deserve reverence when they all pretty much did some horrendous things that today's society wouldn't tolerate.

  • @brodoodman767

    @brodoodman767

    7 жыл бұрын

    +χρονης κ. I don't think that word means what you think it means.

  • @Yoko684
    @Yoko6848 жыл бұрын

    Funny how some hipsters try to measure 13 century with modern time moral standard. Can any of you bring ancient empire without bloody history? Ghengis is praised not because he killed millions but simply he was greatest military genius. Nobody has conquered biggest empire like him in short time not even Alexander.

  • @sarnaig.7253

    @sarnaig.7253

    8 жыл бұрын

    👍👍👍

  • @AvengerAtIlipa

    @AvengerAtIlipa

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Bru Tonin There were 70 cities named after Alexander the Great. The Mongols conquered all of them.

  • @unappropadope

    @unappropadope

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Bru Tonin hipsters?

  • @swangtotheleft5348

    @swangtotheleft5348

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Bru Tonin 'Hipsters' what does that even mean lol. Hes not shitty just because he was a conquerer who killed people, he SLAUGHTERED a ridiculous amount of people and the Mongols including Genghis himself raped MILLIONS of women across the old world. You can argue about how he was the Greatest General of all time and how he brought change in the world but you make a whole video painting him as a saint.

  • @ninjin7560

    @ninjin7560

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Swang ToTheLeft well if ur saying rape, most women were spared unless they tried to commit a crime or went against law and besides Mongolian woman had it way better than most women during those times, and there are many female soldiers and generals that lead the army to victory and viewed as people, and slaughter of chineses people were because they have harassed the Mongol clans for generations and also poisoned his father and brought disharmony between the clans, he's not a saint but he's also not as brutal as you say

  • @Justin-iz1ts
    @Justin-iz1ts3 жыл бұрын

    I really love watching your vids at 3:00am in the morning :-)

  • @odko0820
    @odko08203 жыл бұрын

    Chingiss Khan once said "If you're afraid - don't do it, - if you're doing it - don't be afraid!”💪🏻🇲🇳💪🏻

  • @timgantumur5750
    @timgantumur57506 жыл бұрын

    In present day mongolia he is looked upon as a god

  • @DavidLopez-pc7yg

    @DavidLopez-pc7yg

    6 жыл бұрын

    Tim Gantumur good.

  • @abhishekkumar3679

    @abhishekkumar3679

    6 жыл бұрын

    Well, Mongolia hasn't produced many great leaders or artists. So you got to make do with whatever you got.

  • @DavidLopez-pc7yg

    @DavidLopez-pc7yg

    6 жыл бұрын

    abhishek kumar >Mongolia hasn't produced any great leaders. So the guy who created the world's largest empire to date is not a good leader?

  • @abhishekkumar3679

    @abhishekkumar3679

    6 жыл бұрын

    Outlaw King You really know the difference between "any" and "many", don't you? And Khan was never able to built to an empire. His own sons and grandsons condemned his actions and called him a savage hoard.

  • @rajasula4849

    @rajasula4849

    6 жыл бұрын

    abhishek kumar yeah and his empire didnt last long, it was divided.....

  • @LukeCageforhire
    @LukeCageforhire6 жыл бұрын

    "I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you". Genghis Khan

  • @n3nt2nd464

    @n3nt2nd464

    5 жыл бұрын

    Damn was he brutal

  • @morkujinirukandji4820

    @morkujinirukandji4820

    5 жыл бұрын

    LukeCageforhire statement to the king of China

  • @altanzuldavaadorj2964

    @altanzuldavaadorj2964

    5 жыл бұрын

    No mongols had believed in gods at that time...

  • @localextremist2839

    @localextremist2839

    5 жыл бұрын

    there is a website like that

  • @cesar-lf1jw

    @cesar-lf1jw

    5 жыл бұрын

    Blood and bone

  • @royzhao6537
    @royzhao65374 жыл бұрын

    I’m officially addicted to this series

  • @ultimatebishoujo29

    @ultimatebishoujo29

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same here

  • @gamermadlloyd3016
    @gamermadlloyd30164 жыл бұрын

    you've taught me so much TED -Ed 😁

  • @treefrogjohnson7514
    @treefrogjohnson75147 жыл бұрын

    I wish John Green was here.

  • @maturi3334

    @maturi3334

    7 жыл бұрын

    hahahaha fr

  • @emmettpepito

    @emmettpepito

    7 жыл бұрын

    Crash Course

  • @larindabrunson9381

    @larindabrunson9381

    7 жыл бұрын

    KY2 AQW " *we're the exception* "

  • @turo6o203

    @turo6o203

    6 жыл бұрын

    john green is just little girl to him you ont know Chingis Khaan

  • @Jomster777
    @Jomster7774 жыл бұрын

    Genghis Khan was like Thanos then? Honorable intentions, deplorable actions

  • @saranharbor3367

    @saranharbor3367

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hahaha maybe u are thanos mofaa he is more smart and honest better ur imagination dude

  • @akizeke5794

    @akizeke5794

    4 жыл бұрын

    He was good man. For mongolia ge was like our god father. He was our hero not thanos

  • @Altiveda

    @Altiveda

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not even. Maybe if Thanos was one of hundreds of conquerors and actually succeeded then was painted as a villain while others were painted as gods.wait... Actually not that far off lol.....

  • @biluka8063

    @biluka8063

    4 жыл бұрын

    Your drunk father is like Thanos but not him

  • @scarletheart3342

    @scarletheart3342

    4 жыл бұрын

    He is not Thanos. He did not enjoy killing he wanted to make countries surrender first. He also made warring countries come together under one rule.

  • @9-11wasthecoolestthingever9
    @9-11wasthecoolestthingever94 жыл бұрын

    I love this series, it actually gives controversial figures a fair chance at showing their good side

  • @mohitsawant956
    @mohitsawant9562 жыл бұрын

    1:45 the original' I like ya cut G"

  • @JHD42
    @JHD427 жыл бұрын

    0:31 "Khaaaaan!!!" Just over 30s in and this already earned my thumbs up :)

  • @willsmith4776

    @willsmith4776

    6 жыл бұрын

    JHD42, Maybe its just me, but I cringed pretty hard at that part

  • @bobbiusshadow6985

    @bobbiusshadow6985

    6 жыл бұрын

    Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

  • @et496

    @et496

    5 жыл бұрын

    *_KHAAAaaaaAaan_*

  • @romarssieverything9667
    @romarssieverything96674 жыл бұрын

    *A dotharaki horde Ned in an open field*

  • @thomaswilson3827

    @thomaswilson3827

    4 жыл бұрын

    romarssi everything!! I get your Bobby B reference

  • @nimishrai257

    @nimishrai257

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lmao was waiting for this

  • @arandomguy1040
    @arandomguy10403 жыл бұрын

    Genghis really did have a Anime backstory

  • @ultimatebishoujo29

    @ultimatebishoujo29

    3 жыл бұрын

    Definitely

  • @arktidasagency7968

    @arktidasagency7968

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think some anime character really base on him.

  • @justagilgameshwithoutaenki4072
    @justagilgameshwithoutaenki40723 жыл бұрын

    I see what you did there in the beginning with Khan-quest

  • @godzillavkk
    @godzillavkk7 жыл бұрын

    History vs Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, and first Emperor of China. Was he a brutal and tyrannical monster who practically enslaved his own people? Or was he the Founding Father of China for whom without, there would be no China?(Forgive me if I misused grammar)

  • @damnstupidoldidiot8776

    @damnstupidoldidiot8776

    6 жыл бұрын

    Legend has it that his people had to give 66.666666666666666666666666℅ of what they earned to him as tax.

  • @phatnguyenquoc9175

    @phatnguyenquoc9175

    6 жыл бұрын

    godzillavkk .

  • @danielli1897

    @danielli1897

    6 жыл бұрын

    godzillavkk I

  • @gtbsatalks

    @gtbsatalks

    6 жыл бұрын

    DamnStupidOldIdiot lol

  • @ousamadearu5960

    @ousamadearu5960

    6 жыл бұрын

    godzillavkk Qin Shi Huang was not a complete unifier, nor the founder of China, since it was only named after him in his command. It was the Shang who did it first before the feudal states period before he rose up to power.

  • @saikoyonebayashi7757
    @saikoyonebayashi77578 жыл бұрын

    Finally!! Someone got the pronunciation of his name right ^^"

  • @ninjin7560

    @ninjin7560

    8 жыл бұрын

    +lps WildFlower yes cuz i get so annoyed when they always say genghis khan its like me saying garry potter

  • @saikoyonebayashi7757

    @saikoyonebayashi7757

    8 жыл бұрын

    +minusnuffink nah, it's 'Khan'

  • @saikoyonebayashi7757

    @saikoyonebayashi7757

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Saiko Yonebayashi but you pronounce it 'han'

  • @bayanbatu6848

    @bayanbatu6848

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Saiko Yonebayashi actually its Khaan

  • @ninjin7560

    @ninjin7560

    8 жыл бұрын

    In Mongolia our h is x so xaan is the same as haan which defined as king since Mongolian people don't include a last name

  • @jean-paoloribeiro1738
    @jean-paoloribeiro17383 жыл бұрын

    It's a shame there aren't a lot of these... I really like them.

  • @MrPabgon
    @MrPabgon3 жыл бұрын

    I think that when judging past figures, we should compare them with other figures of that time, rather than nowadays. Morals and ethics have changed a ton, so it isn't really fair to judge those figures with our ethics and morals.

  • @riarazul929
    @riarazul9297 жыл бұрын

    that face though when the judge said "Khan!"...

  • @ultimatebishoujo29

    @ultimatebishoujo29

    3 жыл бұрын

    I know right?

  • @zagboygamez5930
    @zagboygamez59306 жыл бұрын

    Came from Extra History. Cool to see a different perspective.

  • @doso4782

    @doso4782

    6 жыл бұрын

    Im also from Extra Credits!

  • @jackryan4938

    @jackryan4938

    6 жыл бұрын

    Me too!!

  • @masonsilvers6789

    @masonsilvers6789

    5 жыл бұрын

    ZagboyGamez about the same

  • @regretfulman4784

    @regretfulman4784

    5 жыл бұрын

    Same!

  • @goda7137

    @goda7137

    5 жыл бұрын

    me too

  • @Maysdigitaldiary
    @Maysdigitaldiary3 жыл бұрын

    Wish it could be more longer

  • @vesperide598
    @vesperide5983 жыл бұрын

    1 in every 200 are descendants? That's insane

  • @SannyKuro
    @SannyKuro8 жыл бұрын

    mongolians are exception...... like if u get the crash coarse reffrence

  • @MrQuakeLoL

    @MrQuakeLoL

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Sanaa Abed wait for it...

  • @glclol

    @glclol

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Sanaa Abed "insert mongoltage.gif"

  • @Duke_of_Lorraine

    @Duke_of_Lorraine

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Sanaa Abed not Mongolians. Wait for it... the Mongols !

  • @92alexmaster

    @92alexmaster

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Sanaa Abed Except when it comes to invading Vietnam. they got their asses handed to them like all the other super powers that tried.

  • @pluto9870

    @pluto9870

    8 жыл бұрын

    +92axelmaster lmao, Vietnam was colonized by China for 1000 years, the only country invaded for such long period.

  • @007MrYang
    @007MrYang8 жыл бұрын

    I love this series!

  • @vaibhavgupta20

    @vaibhavgupta20

    8 жыл бұрын

    007MrYang they are best part of ted ed.imho.

  • @TheNecromancer077

    @TheNecromancer077

    8 жыл бұрын

    Yup

  • @imadethischannel2364

    @imadethischannel2364

    8 жыл бұрын

    Agreed =)

  • @Angie-ze6yx

    @Angie-ze6yx

    8 жыл бұрын

    me too :3 thy should make more like a shit ton more i learn a lot from these episodes

  • @Necroskull388

    @Necroskull388

    8 жыл бұрын

    +007MrYang I really dislike the framing device. I'd rather he just speak directly to the audience to explain things, similar to how John Green does his show.

  • @t3rmin4tor47
    @t3rmin4tor473 жыл бұрын

    If he killed everyone in his way and left no survivors then how would he grow his empire let alone hold on to land

  • @rob5541

    @rob5541

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's easier to control a smaller population. That was a tactic. They'd kill 9/10 of the population of an area. No need to worry about rebellion for a while.

  • @azidahaka8543

    @azidahaka8543

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@rob5541 no they didn't That's falsified history. Under genghis khan , mongols mostly killed innocents in beijing and even then he took a lot of chinese engineers with him , that's how he defeated khwarazam He didn't have any rebellions because his empire was very secular & tolerant & the laws were strict It was said that an old women could keep gold coins on her head and travel from china to persia and the coins on her head would be intact.

  • @tseevanidermaa3225

    @tseevanidermaa3225

    2 жыл бұрын

    He did not kill every one! They would often surrender!

  • @alvinmacalalad7840
    @alvinmacalalad78403 жыл бұрын

    what happened to this series? it was great made me actually enjoy learning about history 😂

  • @jmfirelord
    @jmfirelord5 жыл бұрын

    Honor: order order, now who’s the defendant today? *looks at portrait of khan* Honor: KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN Im dead

  • @cossackvince9709

    @cossackvince9709

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thats what chinese said

  • @danielawesome36

    @danielawesome36

    3 жыл бұрын

    I understood that reference. _(for those genuinely who don't know, it's from Star Trek)_

  • @ultimatebishoujo29

    @ultimatebishoujo29

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@danielawesome36 I understood it too

  • @wtf1877
    @wtf18777 жыл бұрын

    History vs Hitler History vs Saddam Hussein History vs abbasid dynasty History vs ming dynasty thumbs up so They can se this

  • @melonlord4055

    @melonlord4055

    7 жыл бұрын

    Abbasids and Ming would be interesting. Not so much Hitler and Saddam since this series seems more pertainant to figures who existed before the concept of international morality. Or, they could do Qin I or Salah ad-Din.

  • @basilofgoodwishes4138

    @basilofgoodwishes4138

    6 жыл бұрын

    They should do alexander the Great, Julius Ceaser, Mahatma Ghandi and Wu zetian

  • @redbenada798

    @redbenada798

    6 жыл бұрын

    The Rising Theurge Why Mahatma Ghandi?

  • @redbenada798

    @redbenada798

    6 жыл бұрын

    Benjamin Chooby You expect me to take that seriously?

  • @Aru_im

    @Aru_im

    6 жыл бұрын

    ben jonathan you expect to take that seriously?

  • @sevenaries
    @sevenaries3 жыл бұрын

    I love these lawyer debate-style videos

  • @theultimatelifeformiguess.
    @theultimatelifeformiguess.Ай бұрын

    "Order, order. Now who's the defendant today?" *PTSD WAR FLASHBACKS INTENSIFY*

  • @csm5040
    @csm50406 жыл бұрын

    3:33 That was the first biological war in history.

  • @raph9584

    @raph9584

    5 жыл бұрын

    Crazy Smile 7 but a curious fact about that is that no one knows if it had that intend as they didn’t fully understand the plague back then for us it may now look like obvious that it will spread but remember back then people thought it was a punishment of god to the sinners or a superior entity wrath so there is some revisionism that propose it was just for lowering morale in the city and disrupting the routines of the people

  • @Peter-xs2mu

    @Peter-xs2mu

    5 жыл бұрын

    Not the first. poisoning wells and shooting rotten corpses across city walls was a popular war tactic in ancient times also.

  • @BlueEyes-WhiteDrag0n

    @BlueEyes-WhiteDrag0n

    5 жыл бұрын

    *WORLD WAR Z: Prehistoric Time*

  • @bigmoney101

    @bigmoney101

    5 жыл бұрын

    Christian Silva 9

  • @batmanthemightiestavenger9129

    @batmanthemightiestavenger9129

    5 жыл бұрын

    Nah... It was the first troll move in history

  • @josephaugustine4876
    @josephaugustine48766 жыл бұрын

    Okay then how many did European empires killed during colonial period in Asia and Africa

  • @itsfinnickbitch63

    @itsfinnickbitch63

    5 жыл бұрын

    Joseph Augustine but everyone knows they were bad

  • @notanomnom

    @notanomnom

    5 жыл бұрын

    lmao, its a lot more than 40 million. Chinggis wasn't all that bad, being conquered by his empire probably wasn't a good experience. But for every city he massacred, several more were taken without bloodshed because of the fear that that woud happen to them. I'm a little biased since I have relations to a khanate in Afghanistan, but I really don't think hes that bad at all.

  • @shadow2570

    @shadow2570

    5 жыл бұрын

    notanomnom but was it more than 10% of the population at the time through inhumane methods.

  • @xjgbgaming3480

    @xjgbgaming3480

    5 жыл бұрын

    Does it matter though?

  • @vladescu3g

    @vladescu3g

    5 жыл бұрын

    far from 1% of total population of the world, compare that to 10% of just 1 empire in that short time.

  • @shamsishraq6831
    @shamsishraq68312 жыл бұрын

    "Is that so much worse than other medieval armies?" Yes. Definitely yes.

  • @joewilenzik9119

    @joewilenzik9119

    2 жыл бұрын

    Actually, no

  • @davisdelp8131

    @davisdelp8131

    8 ай бұрын

    @@joewilenzik9119yes

  • @joewilenzik9119

    @joewilenzik9119

    8 ай бұрын

    @@davisdelp8131 there were other armies that did way worse

  • @davisdelp8131

    @davisdelp8131

    8 ай бұрын

    @@joewilenzik9119 which ones did this amount of damage

  • @berdigylychrejepbayev7503

    @berdigylychrejepbayev7503

    4 ай бұрын

    no way near to those barbarians. @@joewilenzik9119

  • @explosivescottie4641
    @explosivescottie46413 жыл бұрын

    I remember watching this last year

  • @cullenfarrell9027
    @cullenfarrell90274 жыл бұрын

    Love these clips! Students enjoy seeing both sides portrayed by your mock trial on historical figures. Please keep them coming.

  • @mariusnita4346
    @mariusnita43468 жыл бұрын

    0:32 KHAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @matheuscardoso1

    @matheuscardoso1

    8 жыл бұрын

    HAKAHDKWHAOXHWKABXOW BEST SCENE

  • @KrypticSpiderMan

    @KrypticSpiderMan

    Жыл бұрын

    Wonder if that's a Star Trek 2 reference🤔

  • @shantelmikalia3095
    @shantelmikalia30952 жыл бұрын

    Please bring these back...

  • @WomanSlayer69420
    @WomanSlayer694202 жыл бұрын

    Fatherless people back then: becomes the greatest conqueror in history Fatherless people now: harasses random people on Twitter for having an opinion