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Posted: 07 Apr 2023

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Chinggis (Ganghis) Khan, contemporary Mongolian painting,
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. . . In this now most unpopulated country on the planet, human remains have been found dating back five hundred thousand years. You are joined by the herdsmen who as the last Ice Age was melting down drove their herds of horses and yaks northward and pushed the peoples up north yet more northward and over the Bearing Strait to slip down into the American hemisphere; you are joined by those space-intoxicated horsemen who thundered westward to give chase to the Teutonic barbarians who overran and devastated the Roman Empire; ;by the warrior-normds who joined the hordes of Chinggis Khan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan racing over to Korea, across China, down to Java, over to banks of the Danube; putting all those economies and cultures into contact and circulating their inventions and crafts from one end to the other of the most extensive empire the planet has ever seen, closing off the Silk Road and forcing the silk-covering and spice-hungry Europeans to their boats to circumnavigate the Cape of Good Hope and overran India and the Spice Islands and cross the Atlantic to plunder the Aztecs, Maya and Inca. With these warrior nomads, in 1347 the Black Death entered Europe, transmitted to humans by bites from fleas carried by marimots, squirrels, and rats, and decimated a third of its population. These so empty steppes of central Asia are the vortex from which the most momentous events of human history was driven. ~ Page 14

In Europe you have trekked Roman roads and in America Inca roads, here the great Khans and their warrior-nomads left no trace of the world-historical events they launched. Here, under the fathomless blue of the sky revered by the Mongols as their only deity, there are no sacred enclaves, no ruins of ancient citadels, no aqueducts, no bridges, no ruined fortresses, no monuments marking great victories or imperial tombs. The burial place of Chinggis Khan himself has never been found, despite teams of geologists combing every square meter of the site recorded in the ancient texts and American and Japanese plots searching any other possibilities with infrared scans. There are only the tracks of yak and camel herds that the winds will efface a day or so after they and you pass. ~ page 14

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