Yet McLynn makes a case for Genghis as a brilliant political innovator. They could fill the sky with a cloud of arrows while riding at full gallop, guiding their tough little horses with their legs, a skill that allowed them to conquer large parts of the world but whose only trace is one of ruined cities, burnt libraries and house-high pyramids of human skulls. What can we learn from this terrible man? The Mongols left no fine buildings, no artefacts. Christian, Buddhist, Confucian, Muslim, he slaughtered them all, but not for their faith. If not immortality, then couldn’t Chang and his disciples, “praying continually on my behalf”, at least procure him longevity? Yet his lack of interest in religious nuance made him tolerant, unlike his opponents. When the sage told him there was no such thing he modified his demands. Genghis, who had female prisoners paraded before him after battle so that he could pick out the prettiest for himself, took little notice, and brusquely asked Chang for the elixir of life. He preached to him against drinking, hunting and sex. Chang set out reluctantly on a three-year journey, finally catching up with the conqueror near Kabul. Towards the end of his life he summoned a Chinese sage, Chang Chun. Genghis declared that he had been divinely appointed to rule the world, but his idea of the divinity was crudely utilitarian. After his victories, thousands of women were raped and thousands of men captured and used as a human shields in battle – being pushed to the front and killed by the arrows of his next opponent, allowing the Mongol horde to wait, unscathed, until the moment came for the decisive charge. He permitted his armies to loot and destroy great cities. Repeatedly he promised his opponents he would spare them, only to slaughter them once they had laid down their arms. McLynn offers a “sober estimate” of 37.5 million as the number of people for whose deaths Genghis Khan was responsible. Science and Technical Research and Development.Infrastructure Management - Transport, Utilities.Information Services, Statistics, Records, Archives.Information and Communications Technology.HR, Training and Organisational Development.
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