There is a saying about the Ancient Romans, that they created a wasteland and called it peace. But you could say something similar about the cultural impact of Genghis Khan. All of human history has been groups of humans conquering each other for land and resources with pockets of peace created by imperialism.
The people you might think of as more natural were no less war-like than our ancestors were. Native American societies were filled with _warriors_ and our ancestors would have had a much harder time conquering them if it were not for bacteria from livestock. Also, Africa was filled with WARRIORS and white slavers bought their slaves from AFRICANS. Everyone conquered everyone and everyone owned slaves, that's history.
Our ancestors weren't worse than the rest of humanity and modern day America certainly isn't worse than China.
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There is a saying about the Ancient Romans, that they created a wasteland and called it peace. But you could say something similar about the cultural impact of Genghis Khan. All of human history has been groups of humans conquering each other for land and resources with pockets of peace created by imperialism. The people you might think of as more natural were no less war-like than our ancestors were. Native American societies were filled with _warriors_ and our ancestors would have had a much harder time conquering them if it were not for bacteria from livestock. Also, Africa was filled with WARRIORS and white slavers bought their slaves from AFRICANS. Everyone conquered everyone and everyone owned slaves, that's history. Our ancestors weren't worse than the rest of humanity and modern day America certainly isn't worse than China.