Pizarro >> Alexander any day, sadly
when you’re talking conquest on that scale it’s not about the k/d ratios anymore... the strategy, daring, and sheer will that calls for are hard to imagine
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Khaganates don’t impress me as much b/c it’s a bandwagon thing, not terribly interesting (any herders who could stop fighting each other and concentrate all forces on farmers can pull it off)
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The Huns, the Bactrians, the Manchu, the Scythians, the Cimmerians, the Goths, the Aryans... I don’t even think Mongols were the most interesting nomadic plunderers. 10% was mostly plague from trans-Eurasian migration
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