The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters.
— Genghis Khan Medieval

Mongol Empire founder

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Context

A notorious and brutal statement on the joys of conquest and the treatment of defeated enemies, including sexual violence.

Date / Period

c. 1206-1227

Category

Shocking

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