(Monday) History in Your Game (Barbarians)

[TerraDave]

This site is, unfortunately, full of a lot of complete and utter hooey. There's a lot of Mongol revisionism that goes on in Eastern Europe. Weird that someone from Norway would be in on it, 'though maybe not too surprising considering the Viking fetishism that goes on.

I thought this sort of thing started in California...

Actually, I saw a duplicate of a shamanistic mongol "pole" (long thing coming out of ground)in a museam recently, with various animal engravings. So there may be something to the root of this, but Gengis Khan as nature lover seems a little exagerated

 

[Tonguez]

but Gengis Khan as nature lover seems a little exagerated

Why? nature full of spirits is a thing of much destructive (and creative) power, awe and terror, pretty much all the qualities required by a would be (and eventually very successful) conquerer.
Plus when you actually look at the other things Genghis Khan did - creating a system of laws, introducing literacy to the Mongol Empire, creating his Pony express and consorting with Christians, Bhuddist and Shaman advisors it shows him to be a very cosmopolitan ruler. Being a nature lover on top of that isn't so far fetched