Come anticipate Genghis Khan with me!

"Recently, a geneticist at Oxford University, Dr. Chris Tyler-Smith, and geneticists from China and central Asia took blood samples from populations living in regions near the former Mongol empire, and they studied the Y chromosomes. These are useful in establishing lineage because Y chromosomes continue from father to son. Dr. Tyler-Smith and his colleagues found that an anomalously large number of the Y chromosomes carried a genetic signature indicating descent from a single common ancestor about a thousand years ago. The scientists theorized that the ancestor was Genghis Khan (or, more exactly, an eleventh-century ancestor of Genghis Khan). About eight per cent of all males in the region studied, or sixteen million men, possess this chromosome signature. That’s a half per cent of the world’s entire male population. It is possible, therefore, that more than thirty-two million people in the world today are descended from Genghis Khan."

Father died, killed brother for not sharing, married, wife kidnapped, blood brother and some other khan ride out get wife back, they do, who knows what happens to the other khan but blood brother walks out on Temugin. They fight first blood brother and boils genereals, then temugin wins by lighting 5 fires per man. Temugin becomes Gengis Khan. Give blood brother honerable death by braking back, what a nice man ghengis khan is. He goes to china, mercenaries are a bit mercenary and join him, chinese are nasty to horse because they put spiky things in the road. Chinese engineer defect, they take beijing by seige. 1 mont h of looting. they go home, found a city, captured chinese teach them stuff. He sends army to persia, but you don't want to know about that. 1 million persians put to the sword. Army marches to europe, no one opposes them really. Ghengis dies, sons take over conquer some more but come home when new khan dies as is custom, vienna breathes a sigh of relief. No one knows where ghengis was buried. The end.

Utter waste of time.

Would all the men actually be descended from Genghis Khan then? I mean what if his cousins had the chromosome signatures?

Wow, this is...big:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/08/03/world/03genghis.xlarge1.jpg

Inside the two-story base of the statue, which opened last September, visitors can see a replica of Genghis Khan’s legendary golden whip, sample traditional cuisine — heavy on the horse meat and potatoes — and experience some decidedly un-nomadic customs, like billiards.

“He was a cruel man but he led our country to greatness,” said Toguldur Munkochir, 25, a bank teller unwinding at the Chinggis Khaan bar later that night. “If you look at Lincoln, Hitler and Julius Caesar, it’s kind of the same thing.”

I just finished The Ridiculous Race, which has a segment where one of the guys racing hangs out with nomads in Mongolia, and they have dvd players, plastic dishes, etc. The guides who take him to the nomad family are two chubby mongolian IT geeks.

Reading this:

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/bestsellers-2006/3284-1.jpg

Kind of suggests that the typical portrayal of him as especially brutal is a bit unfair, first because brutality was fairly typical of civilizations of the day, and second because there were certain aspects of his rule that were relatively enlightened. It's true that he created one of the greatest slaughter machines in human history of course, but he also disfavored torture, was exceptionally good to his soldiers and their families, was religiously tolerant, encouraged the spread of knowledge, and discarded aristocracy in favor of merit and loyalty.

# Come anticipate Genghis Khan with me! [Started by Mista SLAV -- (Mstislav III of Kiev) in April 1222, last updated Friday, June 18, 1223 11:42 PM by Subatai (Subatai)] 1 new answer

u luv GK

Mongol was such a badass movie that everyone should see (but I don't remember it clearly because I was drinking when I saw it). I hope Mongol II comes out soon