Tamerlane - the definition of badass
This guy ordered every soldier should return with at least to heads to show him, otherwise he'll be executed
He, also, in a battle in India, made the elephants turn against the Hindus using flamed camels, then took Delhi and killed 100.000 people in one day.
real badass
If we're saying badasses in terms of body count, territory, and attrocities then in modern times we're talking Stalin. If you attribute his military ****ups, the holodomir, the purges, and the activities of the NKVD and the army, we're talking about somewhere around 60,000,000 deaths, at least 20,000,000 counts of rape and torture, and the Eastern Bloc.
If we're talking about before that, there's Genghis Kahn who definitely did a lot of raping considering that something like 1 in 5 people on the planet is a direct descendant, plus all the murder, attrocities, tributes, and everything else that allows you to unite warring people and conquer the largest swath of territory of any leader in the history of the world.
You've got Ivan The Terrible as well who similarly expanded Russia. Now I wouldn't list Vlad III Dracula because while there's no question that he impaled people and killed at least 300,000 people, there's some confusion as to whether he or Ivan committed most of those. Plus they both were influenced by Minamata disease what with all the mercury.
Originally posted by Darth Jello
If we're saying badasses in terms of body count, territory, and attrocities then in modern times we're talking Stalin. If you attribute his military ****ups, the holodomir, the purges, and the activities of the NKVD and the army, we're talking about somewhere around 60,000,000 deaths, at least 20,000,000 counts of rape and torture, and the Eastern Bloc.If we're talking about before that, there's Genghis Kahn who definitely did a lot of raping considering that something like 1 in 5 people on the planet is a direct descendant, plus all the murder, attrocities, tributes, and everything else that allows you to unite warring people and conquer the largest swath of territory of any leader in the history of the world.
You've got Ivan The Terrible as well who similarly expanded Russia. Now I wouldn't list Vlad III Dracula because while there's no question that he impaled people and killed at least 300,000 people, there's some confusion as to whether he or Ivan committed most of those. Plus they both were influenced by Minamata disease what with all the mercury.
I'll go with khan
Originally posted by Darth Jello
If we're talking about before that, there's Genghis Kahn who definitely did a lot of raping considering that something like 1 in 5 people on the planet is a direct descendant, plus all the murder, attrocities, tributes, and everything else that allows you to unite warring people and conquer the largest swath of territory of any leader in the history of the world.
You've got Ivan The Terrible as well who similarly expanded Russia. Now I wouldn't list Vlad III Dracula because while there's no question that he impaled people and killed at least 300,000 people, there's some confusion as to whether he or Ivan committed most of those. Plus they both were influenced by Minamata disease what with all the mercury.
8% of the males in mongolia and some other parts of asia (0.5% of the global male population) have this gene that spread too quickly to be counted for by genetic drift about 1000 years ago. the explanation proposed for this was social selecetion permitted the prestige his royal family had in arranging marriage and gathering harens. Mass rapes might have accounted for some of it, but it's doubtfull that it was the main cause.
Originally posted by Darth Jello
I was going by previous entries. Also, James Buchanan was like, the worst president ever. TR was good if you ignore the yellow peril episode.
James Buchanan is responsible for preserving the union through its greatest existential risk to date: the Civil War! Because of his handling of the Secession crisis, Abraham Lincoln got elected. Everything that Lincoln accomplished can be attributed directly to Buchanan, from the Emancipation Proclamation to the Northern victory in the war.