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you guys basically covered it.

ghengis khan and the rulers after him deserve 0 respect outside of any respect due to be able to militarily conquer such a vast swathe of land. but pretending they were good dudes is kind of a stretch lol. lets take the military takeovers out of it. oh they let you practice freedom of religion. what great guys. lmao. they didn't care what you did as long as you kicked in tribute. oh got a pretty daughter? now you don't she's property of the khan. or the khans lackeys if they so wished it. it was a completely ruthless governance lol.

but yea. i revere a good amount of shitty people. julius caesar is incredible. but he also killed over a million gauls, and enslaved another million. those million number figures hit different when we're talking BC times.

he was a pretty incredible leader for the roman people themselves. but not the elites of rome. or for anyone not in rome. but hey if you were a roman citizen he was kind of the man