Yo everyone - on this day in 1227 Genghis Motherfucking Khan died. I am still upset about it. Remind yourselves about how amazing he was.

Please consider – if you believe that Alexander the Great was, in fact, Great, but think that Genghis Khan was not one of the greatest men who ever lived, you are uncritically accepting racist – and discredited and outmoded – historical narratives. 

 Assigned reading:  Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Three Rivers Press, 2005)  Jon Man, Genghis Khan, His Heirs, and the Making of Modern China (Corgi, 2015)  Frank McLynn, Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World (The Bodly Head Ltd, 2015) Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the World’s Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom (Viking: 2016) Or maybe just take Hark A Vagrant’s and my word for it: