20 Historical Figures that We Would Love to Bring Back from the Dead

20 Historical Figures that We Would Love to Bring Back from the Dead

Steve - August 4, 2019

20 Historical Figures that We Would Love to Bring Back from the Dead
Taizu, better known as Genghis Khan, as illustrated in an album depicting several Yuan emperors (c. the 14th century). Wikimedia Commons.

7. It would be an interesting social experiment to observe Genghis Khan in a world so divorced from his own

The founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, Genghis – known also by his birth name Temujin and as Taizu under his grandson’s Yuan dynasty – stands among the greatest and most fearsome rulers from all of human history. Uniting by force the disparate tribes of the Central Asian plateau over a period of decades, in 1206 CE Genghis turned the combined might of his new empire against the historic enemies of the Mongol people. Launching an invasion of China, bringing the northern Jin dynasty to its knees, Genghis only broke off his unrelenting assault to attack the Islamic Khwarazmia following their execution of his ambassadors.

Utterly destroying the offending nation, conquering vast portions of Asia along the way, Genghis laid the foundations for what would become the largest contiguous empire in history. Known historically for his savage brutality against his enemies, ruthlessly subjugating lands under his control according to his whim, in addition to providing learning opportunities about a largely lost period of history, it would be an amusing, perhaps even cruel, social experiment to place a nomadic ruler who disdained wealth and possessions into the modern materialistic world where such things are the primary defining characteristics of most people’s self-worth.

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