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Father of Turks, Genghis Khan the GREEN: Invader killed so many people that carbon levels plummeted
By Daily Mail Reporter

Genghis Khan has been branded the greenest invader in history - after his murderous conquests killed so many people that huge swathes of cultivated land returned to forest.
The Mongol leader, who established a vast empire between the 13th and 14th centuries, helped remove nearly 700million tons of carbon from the atmosphere, claims a new study.
The deaths of 40million people meant that large areas of cultivated land grew thick once again with trees, which absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
And, although his methods may be difficult for environmentalists to accept, ecologists believe it may be the first ever case of successful manmade global cooling.
‘It's a common misconception that the human impact on climate began with the large-scale burning of coal and oil in the industrial era,’ said Julia Pongratz, who headed the research by the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology.
‘Actually, humans started to influence the environment thousands of years ago by changing the vegetation cover of the Earth's landscapes when we cleared forests for agriculture,’ she told Mongabay.com.
The 700million tons of carbon absorbed as a result of the Mongol empire is about the same

The Carnegie study measured the carbon impact of a number of historical events that involved a large number of deaths.
Time periods also looked at included the Black Death in Europe, the fall of China's Ming Dynasty and the conquest of the Americas.
All of these events share a widespread return of forests after a period of massive depopulation.
But the bloody Mongol invasion, which lasted a century and a half and led to an empire that spanned 22 per cent of the Earth’s surface, immediately stood out for its longevity.
And this is how Genghis Khan, who repeatedly wiped out entire settlements, was able to scrub more carbon from the atmosphere than any other despot.

‘We found that during the short events such as the Black Death and the Ming Dynasty collapse, the forest re-growth wasn't enough to overcome the emissions from decaying material in the soil,’ explained Pongratz.
‘But during the longer-lasting ones like the Mongol invasion... there was enough time for the forests to re-grow and absorb significant amounts of carbon.’
Though the Khan will remain known as Genghis the Destroyer and not Genghis the Green, Dr Pongratz hopes that her research will lead to future historians examining environmental impact as well as the more traditional aspects of study.
‘Based on the knowledge we have gained from the past, we are now in a position to make land-use decisions that will diminish our impact on climate and the carbon cycle,’ she said.
'We cannot ignore the knowledge we have gained.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... z1CehAYVIf

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Father of Turks, Genghis Khan killed so many people that....

Not in the CyProb section you silly little Greek poof!

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Father of Turks, Genghis Khan killed so many people that....

Not in the CyProb section you silly little Greek poof!

Nice. Remember that when you start threads like Greeks are Slavs in the CypProb section.

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Father of Turks, Genghis Khan killed so many people that....

Not in the CyProb section you silly little Greek poof!

Nice. Remember that when you start threads like Greeks are Slavs in the CypProb section.

It’s very important and relevant for Cypriots to understand where they DO NOT come from! But Genghis Khan in the CyProb?

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And Genghis Khan has nothing to do with Turkish history except that his ancestors got kicked out of the Chinese Mountains as well

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Get Real!, once more, act as your f- nickname suggests...
And Genghis Khan has nothing to do with Turkish history except that his ancestors got kicked out of the Chinese Mountains as well

Then who are those Mongols? They are not necessarily the same as today's Mongolians. Today, both the Mongolians and the Kazaks claim that they were the true descedants of Genghis Khan, and some people in southern China also claimed the same heritage. When Mr Liang Suming (Last Confucian Of China) published an article "An Exploration Into Yuan Dynasty" in 1918 and hence was appointed lecturer of philosophy at Peking University, people would not know that Liang, a youth of 25 from Guiling, today’s Guangxi Province in Southern China, would be a Mongol in heritage. The Mongols held on to their stronghold in today's Guangxi-Yunnan areas much longer after they lost China proper. Recent DNA tests conducted against the remains of the Khitan tombs, however, pointed to the possibility that those Mongols in today's Yunan-Guangxi areas were more Khitan than Mongol. Those people in southern China did historically claim that they were the descendants of Khitans who were dispatched to southern China by the Mongols in the 14th century. (The DNA tests, interestingly, also linked the Dawo'er or Dagur people in today's Manchuria as the closest kin of the ancient Khitans.)

Then, who are those people called Mongols came from at the time of Genghis Khan? What is their lineage and who would be their direct descendants today? And, what did Paul Ratchnevsky say in his book "Genghis Khan: His Life And Legacy" about the origins of various steppe tribes, the ambiguous birth year of Ghengis Khan, and most importantly, missing 10 year history of the Khan?


Mengwu Shiwei

It will be a tough call to tell the difference between Turkic, Mongol and Tungusic tribes. We had spent considerable time exploring into the Huns and the Turks. It will help in clarifying the origin of the Mongols. Before the Mongols, there existed the Hsiongnu (Huns), Hsien-pi (Xianbei), Tavghach (Tuoba), Juan-juan (Ruruans), Tu-chueh (Turks), Uygurs [Huihe, i.e., ancestors of the Uighurs (see Turk section)], Kirghiz, and Khitans. Tribal empires rose and fell, the conquered and the conquerors mixed up, and ethnic and linguistic dividing lines blurred. Notable would be the fact that the so-called Indo-European nomads, Scythians ('Sai Ren' People) and Yuezhi (Yüeh-chih), had migrated to Oxus and the Iranian world a long time ago. The Huns, who drove away the Yuezhi, had raided as far west as the ancient Jiankun [Kirghis] territory. The Turks, and the later Mongols, followed the path of the former.

http://www.imperialchina.org/Mongols.shtml