Genghis Khan Was Unstoppable And We've Just Figured Out Why...

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Thanks Arran

[@christopherellis2663]

Genghis not ghenghis

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Don't use those ai thumbnails, or clickbait titles.

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One of the many *best* things about your videos and content is that you go straight into the content. There is no time wasting. Your channel has quickly become on my favorite

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I don’t care what anyone says. As a nearly decade long subscriber; I’ve never heard anything other than “Hey, forty-two here”.

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That's what I hear

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That’s because he’s always said forty two. It’s an ode to the book/movie a hitchickers guide to the galaxy which essentially goes as 42 is the answer to the life, universe and everything. Highly recommend the film and movie. Sorry for the grammar errors I’m learning enlgish

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​@TheArtofFugue Mind blown, boom. So we aren't mistaking thoughty 2 for 42. I saw the movie a long-time ago, nice catch, if so.

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@@TheArtofFugue your grammar is far better than a lot of what I see everyday

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@@TheArtofFuguedon’t apologize for your English. That’s better than 90% of Americans…That is interesting if accurate

[@spidalack]

In a world of 40 seconds shorts, Thoughty2 comes out with a 45 minutes gem.

[@daryld4457]

Daryl likes this.

[@MrThe1234guy]

42

[@haviper]

Honestly didn't realize it was that long until I finished watching it

[@cmoncuhhh700]

thoughty second shorts*

[@Vee_of_the_Weald]

People with long attention span unite! 🤘🏼

[@michaeldriggers7681]

What I'm learning from this is that if you want your people to conquer the world, pay them well, show them respect, and promote based on merit, not social standing.

[@ryanzutell1423]

That’s kind of continually been proven throughout history. Not particularly groundbreaking

[@shadenym5094]

@@ryanzutell1423that’s what HE learned man. No need to shit in his oatmeal

[@ryanzutell1423]

@@shadenym5094 it seems more like a snarky observation on his thoughts of society. But to each their own

[@gnaleinad]

Did you forget the cruelty and mass murder? 😂

[@stephensaunders3759]

Everyone back then committed mass murder look at Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, the Spanish the list goes on and on

[@holeymcsockpuppet]

Lessons I learned from the video: 1. Build friendships. 2. Leave no potential threat with any power...or alive. 3. Recruit talent, not "titles" (noble birth people) 4. Build loyalty through limited freedoms and money. 5. Don't attack directly. Instead, cut off supply lines and draw out enemies. Make them fight you on your terms. 6. Constantly seek to improve your tactics and technology. Be a lifelong learner. 7. Adapt to your circumstances rather than trying to adapt them to you. Use available resources...like rivers or horse milk (and bl00d). 8. Know your limitations. 9. Strike fast, strike hard...very hard. 10. Use your enemies fear, their anger, and their greed against them. Bonus lesson: 11. Decorate your enemies with liquid silver. Awesome video as always Thoughty2!

[@skyehigh2527]

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[@RearAdmiralTootToot]

This hasn't been approved by Sun Tzu yet though, so it is still just mere speculations as to the art of victories.

[@oguzkaganonder1331]

@@RearAdmiralTootToot Conquered half of the world, I think this proves something

[@aldouztek2784]

12. Don't steal other people's wife

[@Nowhere-from]

It all sounds great until you try putting them together. Let's say recruiting talent instead of entitled people.... Temujin had to loose the important friendship of nobles and instead he made new and powerful enemies within his own people, the Mongol tribes. This powerful aristocracy became better suited as enemy than as friend in the end, but putting that into practice is just impossible. You would need the power to see the future to put it into practice. Temujin had to be very intelligent and charismatic, but also highly lucky...which is possible, just think in lottery winners.

[@davea6314]

If Genghis Kahn had permanently conquered the entire world then I might be teaching Mongolian poetry, a job which would have its PROSE and KHANS. 😜

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Dammit KHAAAAAANN

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Beautiful. 😅

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[@skeepodoop5197]

I'm sorry... He killed SO many people that he reduced the amount of carbon in the atmosphere!? WHAT!?

[@ronanonymous6017]

Where do you think the WEF got the idea from?

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​@@ronanonymous6017 😂

[@25lxghters11]

This is actually insane 😂

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Thoughty sent a message. Covertly, and accurately.

[@jonwoodmass2849]

This thoughty2 guy sounds unhinged

[@collinsasena621]

This guy is just on a diff level of narrating. So far in my opinion the best piece i have seen from him.

[@obiwrongkenobi]

I agree 100%

[@benjaminguilatcoiv]

I can imagine that he was just like many guys who were even as kids drawn to the story of Genghis / Chinggis Khan and the great Mongol hordes, this is a distillation of his lifetime passion, interest of reading and learning about this subject matter.. as well after having made many videos with feedback on each one from the audience he knows how to best present his information in the most engaging manner. This is a culmination of many aspects coming together at the right time.

[@dixienormus6941]

Absolutely brilliant. This is better than anything you’d ever see on bbc. This man is a legend

[@SportsBettingFacts]

So what is the reason he was unstoppable?

[@drewdabrew4745]

BBC are clout chasing losers .

[@KyxLimitless]

@@SportsBettingFacts He was better

[@SportsBettingFacts]

@@KyxLimitless 😂😂😂We knew that before watching this clickbait garbage

[@noaharthur9041]

@@SportsBettingFacts still a fire video though.

[@BiggChunguss]

Thoughty2 dropping a 45 min video on Genghis Khan? Nice

[@botezsimp5808]

You forgot the period.

[@lydiaben1724]

I didn’t realize it was 45 min 😂

[@Hession0Drasha]

Is that how he was finally defeated? Crushed by a chonky video 😊

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[@epaniyYoutub]

Jamukha's head wasn’t chopped off. At the time in Mongolian tribes it was customary for nobles to get “bloodless” death upon execution. Jamukha was captured and later got his back broken, that’s how he was executed.

[@pheresy1367]

Good one!

[@uuganbayartserenochir]

As a Mongolian myself i would say this comment was very true according to my and everyone else's knowledge.

[@madfrosty5228]

correct

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Glad I scanned the comments before saying something About that.

[@Astrnauted]

That sounds like an extraordinarily painful way to die

[@stevezagieboylo9172]

You failed to mention this little tidbit: If you have ancestors from Eastern Europe, you're very likely descended from the Khan.

[@Unkn4wN_TM]

From Genghis himself, or his empire? 🤔 it's hard to believe that such a huge population would be descended from one single person

[@stevezagieboylo9172]

@@Unkn4wN_TM He had hundreds of *acknowledged* grandchildren, and almost certainly hundreds more. His offspring were highly encouraged to be "fruitful" on their campaigns. It has been shown that 0.5% of men have his Y-chromosome, which means a direct line of fathers, so that doesn't count all the lines that lead through women at any point. I've seen estimates as high as 20% of the population have some direct connection, and you can assume that the 80% that don't are from places his men didn't go. My own ancestry is Ukraine and Poland on my father's side, but genetic tests show me to be almost 4% Mongol.

[@steringp1434]

But if Genghis Khan's grave was never found, then we do not have a sample of his DNA. So how could anyone know if they actually have Genghis Khan's DNA or just some generic Mongolian DNA? It's the same when it is claimed that 'It has been shown that 0.5% of men have his Y-chromosome'. How do we know that it is Genghis Khan's Y-chromosome if we cannot know what his Y-chromosome actually looked like?

[@theprisoner3]

@@stevezagieboylo9172 I have to do one of those tests; I'm also from Eastern Europe

[@doratheexploder286]

Liu Bang may want a word regarding the greatest rags to riches story. Temujin was born to a chieftain, Liu Bang was a lowly soldier who lost some bandits he had taken charge of as prisoners. So left with a future that was looking very short, as he would now be put to death for being a useless soldier, he ran away. Liu then went and joined up with the bandits he just days earlier held prisoner, and eventually became the 1st emperor of the Han dynasty.

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Ong

[@muskyoxes]

I think we can Godwin's Law this one too. A random artist holds the whole world at bay

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42 - the answer to life, the universe and everything.

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[@epaniyYoutub]

the name “Genghis” is actually mangled “Chingis”, because westerners learned first about him from Persian and Arabic sources. Since there is no “ch” sound in Arabic, the name “Chengis” was transliterated to “Gengis”. Same thing happened to Osmans which were transliterated to “Othman” in Arabic and became “Ottomans” in Western world.

[@JohnNiiggington]

It was actually “Chungus”

[@epaniyYoutub]

@@JohnNiiggington copy “Чингис хаан” and paste it to youtube search. You will get videos of Mongolians talking about him. Notice how they pronounce the name.

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@@JohnNiiggington It's pronounced Chinggis, with 2 [iː] sounds.

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​@@JohnNiiggingtondon't speak if you don't know anything

[@ishanchegu]

Very nice bit of history and etymology! Got any more for us? 😅

[@adnaanu]

They also inadvertently discovered probiotics. They consumed a lot of yoghurt and beverages similar to kefir. This helped against digestive ailments, which might have hindered their progress.

[@warlordofbritannia]

Specifically that scourge of every pre-twentieth century army: dysentery.

[@hezu_vt]

dammit, this 45minute video was so interesting that it didn't feel long at all. Also, I loved the fact that he mentioned that westerners view Genghis Khan as a villain, but the other part of the world respect him as a great leader.

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40:04😐

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[@mechez774]

One other point you missed - a recent genealogical survey estimates that 1 in 12 Asians is descended from Genghis. His presence is also felt in modern geopolitics as his raiding was the cause of Middle Eastern demise which sent Arabia back to the dark ages when previously they were comparable to classical Greece in terms of the advancement of their scholarship.

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Based chungus khan

[@borabingol6797]

No. It was Ghazali who sent the muslim world to darkness and he was brought by Nizam Al-mulk the famous vizier of Great Selchuks. Ghazali was a scholar and philosopher which is like great but also religously bigot. 100 yeras ago before Ghazali, there was Ibn Sina (Avicenna), one of the founders of the medicine. He was also a philosopher and he almost wrote cogitomergo sum nearly 700 years before Descartes. However, it was Ghazali’s teaching soread to muslim communities (with the help of the rulers) and even Ghazali told Ibn Sina’s fairh was corrupt. That was when Middle East went into dark.

[@TheStupidityBand]

He covered that in another video

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Makes it funny to think his first child was questionable.

[@jimmyford4509]

Thank you for the story and narration, Thoughty2. It was, by far, the most i have ever enjoyed a history lesson. Definitely did nof feel 45 minutes long, and I enjoyed every minute of it. I always try to catch each new video ever since I subscribed, which I did after listening to my first Thoughty2 story. Great job.

[@adamwu4565]

There is a sociological concept known as the "Circle of Otherness". Basically, those inside the circle are considered other people, deserving of certain rights, privileges and treatment with respect, and a need to properly justify mistreatment (like, they have committed some crime or transgression), while those outside the circle are not considered "real" people and therefore can be treated accordingly, like animals or worse, by whatever your culture accepts as acceptable for such things. Genghis Khan's life story kind of illustrates a gradual expansion of his personal circle otherness, starting from including just himself, then his family, then his tribe, then all the tribes on his side, and finally to all the people who were in his empire and loyal to him and all peoples willing to submit to his rule and be loyal to him. One of the keys to his success was that he treated the people inside his circle quite well and progressively by the standards of his time. In addition to promoting them based on merit, shared the spoils of war equally, allowed them to practice their own religions freely, he also gave women in his empire more rights and privileges and protections and political power than was typical for the time, and usually forbade his armies from looting and pillaging cities that surrendered to him without a fight. These cities were often allowed to keep most of their existing customs and laws, and some times even their rulers got to keep their positions. This was why so many cities did surrender to the Mongols without fighting, and so many citizens of the empires they invaded ended up joining them and helping them by teaching them things like how to build siege engines. Genghis Khan's reputation for being a genocidal maniac (which is not true. I mean the genocidal part was certainly true, but the maniac part was not. Almost everything Genghis did in his life was carefully considered and planned) comes from the ways he treated people outside his Circle. But it should be noted that the idea that all of humanity belongs inside the circle as a matter of course only became widespread quite some time after Genghis' life. (And in recent times there is growing debate about whether or not certain beings who aren't human should be included inside the circle, such as certain highly intelligent animals, and hypothetical AI with human level capabilities)

[@thexen3120]

This is awesome! Genghis is definitely worthy of a 45 minute video. Thank you!

[@sirridesalot6652]

Watched the entire video and couldn't believe that 45 minutes went by so quickly.

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Whoa, only noticed it because your comment popped up 30 mins in 😂

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[@Gringorican]

I didn't even realize until after he said "thanks for watching" and I looked at the comments 😳

[@leftcoastfunk]

What a great quasi-documentary on the phenomenal legend Genghis Khan! I really appreciate that you mostly portrayed him without casting judgment, and credited his non-militaristic accomplishments as well. Your summary at the end of the video was perfect and very well stated. There's no denying his influence in society, government, local and international trade, and military logistics. He brought a lot of good to the world alongside utter destruction, truly a difficult man to understand

[@dragonofhatefulretribution9041]

Regarding the Mongol horde’s diet we actually know that they didn’t forage whatsoever & their diet was more or less entirely carnivore. They hunted nearby game, drank the milk of their horses, made yogurt and sour-milk from it, drank their horses’s blood, and ate their horses’s meat. In contrast, the Chinese armies subsided on gruel made from grains, and were regularly ill, whereas Genghis Khan’s men were incredibly robust in health, and could go without food for days at a time. There was a book written about these factors which advocates of the carnivore diet constantly cite to prove their claims of it’s excellent effects on their health-something I fully support being a 6-years-carnivore myself.

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They have 400 different kinds of dairy products from various animals for different medical purposes as well as herbal and mineral medical treatments… Even did surgery

[@benji89917]

What so you eat though?

[@jayvanover4130]

But dairy like milk n yogurt is not considered carnivore is it?

[@dragonofhatefulretribution9041]

@@jayvanover4130 I consider it “carnivore”. We in the carnivore community can be quite dogmatic due to the massive amount of scientists and highly-educated nurses, cardiologists etc who are keenly-aware of the detrimental effects that glucose have on the health of the vascular-tree, however I’ve consumed large quantities of raw milk for years on the carnivore diet, although recently (over the past 10 months or so) I’ve been making large amounts of soured-milk in order to enjoy the nutritional benefits yet rid myself of the inflammatory glycation caused by the sugars found in milk. So I’m essentially now “proper” carnivore; keto-carnivore. However I allow myself to have an insulin “bump” every now and then with a small bowl of full-fat yogurt or some milk. At least I’m not consuming grains or fruits and suffering chronic inflammatory glycation like the average normie!😉

[@dragonofhatefulretribution9041]

@@benji89917 75-80% beef. Tallow, butter, lamb, pork, eggs, cheese, soured-milk, chicken, yogurt, shrimp, muscles…(the list goes on and on)

[@TradinTigerJohn]

Napoleon gave the French Revolution and the Enlightenment teeth. It sounds like Genghis Kahn created a lot of his own enlightenment and of course also gave it teeth. This presentation does a wonderful job of clarifying why GK was so successful. Notwithstanding some cruelties that arguably tainted his professional militarism, he was a genius general, politician and economist. Instituting meritocracy and treating religion as a non-issue (as it should be) are lessons some of today's politicians and economists seem to be forgetting. And how about attacking and weakening civilian economies to the point where it begins to erode military redoubts you can't attack directly? Today's leaders need to sit in on more of GK's lectures and take good notes. Thanks, T2 for another beautifully done presentation.

[@rufussouthgate7532]

He nearly doubled the world as well.

[@painzockt]

He really made sure that only his DNA got spread

[@cicichambers3887]

lol him and Nick Cannon

[@RealtorJosephLubbock]

Yeah, he pumped

[@Sniperboy5551]

Nice.

[@Mobus_]

I in 4 Asians is a direct descendant.

[@CaspianNomad]

It's always understated just how much the Steppe tribes impacted and changed history and there's yet to be a video on KZbin that properly mention and examines the ripple effects of the Mongol Empire and the rest out of the Steppes over the course of world history

[@m.c.martin]

First the Huns, then the Mongols. Fascinating history really

[@bigmikem1578]

@@m.c.martinway before the huns … the Xiangnyu confederacy…. Then the Gokturks.

[@alexhlavac2827]

Gog and Magog?

[@Shaggy-8392]

A more recent study also shows that the Monglolians fostered a threat of being brutal to scare enemies into submission before the fight even started. They were no more brutal than any other empire expanding.

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Thank you so much for creating free content for all to enjoy at this fantastic level of quality, you do amazing work!❤

[@sojolly]

My favorite quote here was "For the Jin it was like fighting smoke. Really fucking angry smoke." Too funny.

[@johnb.shakoor2352]

Clicked on this as something to listen to as i get ready for work. Ended up glued to it until i clocked in lol great video

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That was an incredible production. Thank you!

[@yazidncsdo3115]

A 45 min thoughty2 vid? well that's gonna be interesting

[@SportsBettingFacts]

So what is the reason he was unstoppable?

[@EfenTyson]

I like these longer stories vs the 5-10min older ones, which I already watched all. Keep creating great work @Thoughty2

[@Jess-zw1ku]

I've been a subscriber since this channel is under ten videos... nearly watch all of them by today....and u've reached the finest level of making a video content. Well done thoughty².

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Hey man, i am really impressed with the level of quality you have reached these days. I remember finding your 10 fact type videos years ago and have to say, youve really upped your game. And earned a new fan with this one

[@carlhume544]

Bloody fabulous stuff mate. Really well researched, and your delivery ignites a passion for history and historical figures. Cracking humour as well, keep up the brilliant work, from Australia.

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Best most consistent content 👏🏽

[@SportsBettingFacts]

So what is the reason he was unstoppable?

[@sadLeshrac]

​​@@SportsBettingFacts mostly the 42nd minute mark, I guess. but it does surprise me you had to ask that question. Could you not figure that out from the information you just gathered from the video. (I'm not being rude, I hope)

[@SportsBettingFacts]

@@sadLeshrac From the title, one would assume some new research has revealed something very interesting. But the video is just a biography. This guy is clickbaiting people all the time and they don't even care

[@Vizible21]

​@@SportsBettingFactsand using ai with shitty graphics. I didn't know Genghis Khan had 6 fingers? Lmao

[@SportsBettingFacts]

@@Vizible21 😁😂😄

[@BeefIntoCake]

This is genuinly one of my top 3 channels on youtube./ I Never dislike any of your videos. All are fun and informative and I always look forward to the next episode. Thanks for doing a great job Arran. It's...Arran right? I think I heard it mention once when you promoted your book ;-)

[@ISee-xe5ow]

This was a great production , thank you!

[@susanandrews2294]

Arran, your vids are always entertaining, informative and so well researched that I wish I'd had you as a history prof in school! Keep up the great work!

[@MrGosvi]

Its really nice to see a longer video. Keep up the good work :)

[@mellowmike6263]

There's a quote from this great show utopia that I always think about: "You know the person who had the greatest positive impact on the environment on this planet? Genghis Khan, because he massacred forty million people. There was no one to farm the land. Forests grew back." Interesting to see the truth in it

[@SubSonicEctomorph]

One of my favs, and I’ve followed you since your early days. Great jump into long-form!

[@philipgoldenstein8247]

Thank you for your work, I look forward to watching your videos every week. I really do appreciate you.

[@joobaloo7108]

Really enjoying the longer form videos that do a deeper dive into history. As usual great content very well told.

[@espielawson2236]

I love the longer form videos! Thank you for the amazing information and the amusing storytelling

[@gerellkhamdash8992]

What an amazing video! Thank you for providing an unbiased and quite accurate explanation of who he truly was. Genuinely appreciate how you depicted him mostly without judgment and acknowledged both his militaristic and non-militaristic achievements. As a Mongolian, it brings me great joy to see and hear this perspective (which is very, very rare!) Loved the thorough research and engaging delivery! Enjoyed the humor too. Thank you again!

[@cradlelist]

Love these long videos with epic narration as always😊😊

[@tonnywildweasel8138]

Excellent work !! Interesting, informative, and entertaining 👍 Thank you very much, and greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱, TW.

[@jillking5876]

I love the longer videos! Fantastic topic.

[@aidenjohnson4545]

I love the Long form content, a great deep dive into such a fascinating part of world history

[@taidee]

This was some amazing delivery Thoughty wow, this 45 minutes didn't feel as long as it should, thank you man.

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Ive always loved this channel for like 8 years or something now thanks for your great content ! 🔥🔥🔥🙏👏

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Love your work, keep it coming!

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I always love watching your videos! Tbh your videos have been one of my constant -usual background when I do random stuff. I hope you produce more interesting and mind boggling videos... Love from the Philippines ♡

[@flyygurl18]

Thank You; Incredible storytelling..brilliant video!🤩

[@jamesguest4873]

This might be your finest work yet. Thank you kindly.

[@carlagthinkbig8638]

Another impressive video! Thank you so much 🙏🏻 your videos are my companion

[@weksauce]

More interesting than that some CO2 went out of the atmosphere for 200 years after his death, is that he got uber lucky in that there was a relative abundance of CO2 locked up in wood BEFORE HIS BIRTH, like a multi-generational anomaly, and it was focused on and around Mongolia, such that people surmise someone would have conquered even if it wasn't him. He was just born in the right place right time on top of a 10th century oil boon. It wasn't oil, but having wood to burn meant making extra babies and moving armies around much easier, relatively speaking. Wood was food (via cooking). Wood was industry. Carbon in plants and animals was literally food.

[@brandontrish86]

As soon as I saw 45 minutes on a Thoughty2 video, I about got up to make popcorn. Love these longer form videos

[@rtsesmelis]

Thanks, man. Absolutely great video. Fantastic story-telling!

[@jhhwild]

I feel like a Genghis Kahn miniseries would be epic.

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I haven't seen one of your videos in a hot minute, but boy do I miss them

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It probably took 2 weeks to make this video

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In a hot minute? Are you a homosexual?

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@@Dave_of_Mordor 42 weeks u mean

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Thank you for another great video!

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Thank you so much for such great content. Really enjoyed it

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Phenomenal man. Thank you for this!

[@CeNNteR]

This mans videos are my teen years in a nutshell, coming here is like coming home

[@daryld4457]

How old are you now?

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​@@daryld4457He can't be that old. 25 ish? I know I've been watching Thoughty-2 for years probably 6 though.

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Right? I feel like i’m sitting in my sophomore history class lol

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27 in a couple of days

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​@@CeNNteRAdvance Happy birthday

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Loved this one so much I watched it twice to make sure I can correctly argue with my brother later.❤

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Amazing video, super interesting. Good stuff Thoughty2

[@bigheadrhino]

On the field they also employed “kiting” (RTS gaming terminology) which involves shooting while retreating so that you constantly outrange your opponent.

[@ZGreen3]

Always a great day to see this man’s beautiful mustache pop up on my screen and bless me with 10-45 min of straight knowledge in a fun way! Much love thoughty2! Much love

[@elysaadornato5305]

I very rarely sit through a 20 minute KZbin video without doing something else at the same time but sat utterly captivated for 45 minutes of this one. You have a gift for storytelling and the team you have behind the creation of these videos is just as impressive. Well done. We need more content like this online, keep them coming.

[@Mystikyle]

“I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” -Genghis Khan.

[@andrejmicic5192]

Ayo maybe he was actually cooking on that one

[@Jablan11]

Incredible video, everyone has heard of Gengis but I never bothered to learn anything about him beyond surface level information. Very cool, great info.

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Yeah thank you! 45 mins I can hardly wait for amazing narration, with good British wit.

[@chuckbilly-zg1ob]

Your thumbnails made me think this channel was one of those AI channels. I'm happy to see that is not the case. I enjoy your content thoroughly and I appreciate the effort you put into your videos. Thank you.

[@josuegialis3]

Thank you! Fire content ❤

[@beniv5846]

Great video as always. Thank you!

[@AceMoonshot]

I kind of feel sorry for that governor of the Khwarazmian Empire. At least in the way it plays out in my head. The Shah seemed to genuinely believe that the Mongol traders were spies and it was all to prep for Genghis' next conquest. Which, to be fair, assuming Genghis Khan was going to invade you, would not be a particularly outrageous assumption. So the Shah ordered the governor to treat the Mongol traders as Mongol spies. The governor had to know that order was a 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' type of order. Shah: I want you to bitch-slap the most ruthless and powerful man on the planet. Twice. Governor: Might as well borrow large sums of money now since I will never have time to pay it back

[@nicomoreno5028]

I agree to an extent. Perspective is literally the most important factor. He did have another option... he could have given them a longer and less consequential route. He could have even made them avoid his territory altogether, once he realized they had arrived. Instead, he mortalized em and took their stuff. That sounds like he either assumed Genghis didn't want beef out of fear instead of opportunity, or that maybe he didn't realize who sent those traders.

[@Just0wnedEsport]

Alas, in hindsight it was indeed a fuckup. A fuckup, outcome wise, the biggest one ever in human history.

[@AkmalAziz-zy8ct]

You shouldn't. I'm from Uzbekistan (central asia, Khwarezm is part of my country) and we do have historical records of Genghis khan written by central asian historians. Shah was so arrogant, He did what his religion explicitly stated not to do (kill the diplomats). Safe to say, he had it coming. Another governor of a different state in the Khwarizmi empire said when captured "spilling royal blood is a curse in my religion" so Genghis khan ordered him to be rolled in a carpet and be beaten to death so his blood wouldn't be spilled on the ground...

[@mikoto7693]

I suppose the Governor and the Shah had another option. If they believe the merchants were spies, then just refuse them entry into the territory/city and politely decline. Then send them home unharmed and without stealing their stuff. All right, it still might not be entirely wise to turn around and say no, but perhaps send a small diplomatic party back with the merchants to meet and ascertain whether friendship really was being offered.

[@pheresy1367]

@@mikoto7693 Returning EVERYTHING and EVERYBODY in the caravan would have shown Ghengis some "high-mindedness" at LEAST. To execute everybody and STEAL everything was a complete "low-brow" way to go... Disgraceful.

[@terfalicious]

This made me realize how little I know about Asian history - a huge part of the human story. Thank you for piquing my curiosity!

[@lostingear]

That was great. Best video I have seen of yours!

[@jermarcleveland9634]

Checking in from USA. New to the channel & I love it!

[@jyro_447]

A whopping 45 minute video?! Oh boy my day is safed ❤

[@johnathansaegal3156]

43:38 ... if anything, it would be his belief in freedom of religion that caused so many people to align themselves with him. In that era the concept was basically unheard of, and nothing will make a person more hostile than force them to abandon their deeply-held beliefs to be forced to believe in something else. His success was built upon many things, but I truly believe that the reason his followers supported him so much was that: freedom of religion. Second: Meritocracy. When you allow very talented "nobodies" to shine with skills that would otherwise be concealed under a caste system, you bring forth brilliant minds (such as his blacksmith general). Splitting the loot evenly made every warrior feel equal and therefore less likely to become jealous or angry at the ones who have more (cutting down on mutiny/coups). But, all things considered, by allowing freedom of religion, I think this was what united the people to support this military genius. He was brutal, yes, but was he that much more brutal than other leaders throughout history? Not for the era of his rule. I fully understand why he is still revered by Mongols today. He was Mongolia's George Washington.

[@pxlbits6442]

Commie Genghis

[@Popcod1994]

I came because I love Kahns history. Usually historians paint him in a bad light (somewhat deserved), but never talk about his good side. I’m only 2:37 in currently and finishing but you might gain a new subscriber/listener

[@toughguy2186]

BRA-VO Thoughty2 !!! Another great story presentation, thank you for a good work and interesting channel !!! 👍👍👍

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I,de love to see you do a video on the philidelphia experiment. 😊

[@toddwillis7559]

43 minutes of thoughty2 Life just got better! Keep the longer vids coming champ 🙏

[@leandrodomingues4452]

oh the sarcasm in this video is gold ... love it

[@thedebateroom]

this video was really good work, thanks

[@pr17chard]

I’m looking forward to watching this one.

[@homiejo]

I LOVE YOU THOUGHTY2

[@hhf39p]

Thanks Thoughty2. I look forward to the day to make it up to you.

[@ttppro1985]

Been waiting for this

[@soson001]

Thanks!

[@JinxxCJ]

Why is there not a high production TV series about Genghis Khan? I feel like it could be highly popular similar to vikings

[@canchero724]

Not a westerner, that's why. He would be hailed and immortalized on the level of Alexander and Julius Caesar if he was.

[@robyngrieve5495]

There was mini series about Kublai Khan a few years back 2014? It was excellent. It had Marco Polo in it and loads of interesting characters. I think it was HBO and I don't even remember the name. But it was really great, showed a lot about Mongol culture.

[@sanjivjhangiani3243]

There was a 2008 movie, "Mongol," about Genghis Khan's rise to power. It was really good.

[@weeklyfascination]

Had to click on this video because the thumbnail is SOOOO good. Glad I did because the video was incredible. I'm glad I watched.

[@VC788]

I love this channel! You and johnny harris have made youtube way more interesting, along with other creatives as well (i just like them more 😅) Thoughty you've made a fan out of me! So good job and enjoy a "spot of tea" 😂😂😂

[@BigDawgBignuts24]

WE LOVE THE 30+ MINUTE VIDEOS KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK THOUGHTY!

[@BeWhoYouWant2]

yeah I love having something long enough to jog on the treadmill and not keep having to find a new video.