He restored the silk roads, IIRC. Any other benefits of which you can think?
He restored the silk roads, IIRC. Any other benefits of which you can think?
Well, conquering half the world basically gave the leadership class an enema. He probably dislodged a bunch of institutionalized fuckery, but it'd be hard to quantify.
Well, conquering half the world basically gave the leadership class an enema. He probably dislodged a bunch of institutionalized fuckery, but it'd be hard to quantify.
Sort of in my own line of thinking. But I was hoping someone more knowledgeable could quantify it for me.
Thanks for trying.
Sort of in my own line of thinking. But I was hoping someone more knowledgeable could quantify it for me.
Thanks for trying.
The problem is that wide swaths of what he conquered didn't record history. That said and depending on if you see it as a positive, he unified China. He temporarily halted the spread of Islam in the east, and that was a positive, however temporary.
The problem is that wide swaths of what he conquered didn't record history. That said and depending on if you see it as a positive, he unified China. He temporarily halted the spread of Islam in the east, and that was a positive, however temporary.
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