Pizarro >> Alexander any day, sadly
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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Caesar is great but he gets the same rap that Christian Europe does; he distinguished himself more in fighting his neighbors than in Gaul etc
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was it “single-minded”? i think he was ambivalent, his status was homines principes ancient world was killed by Goths, maybe that’s another reason you see Mongols as top-nomads (imagine killing all those Han and not even bringing down Tang culture...)
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