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Were the Mongols the only ones in history that had the most effective solution to insurrgency ??

.... or are they the only ones that are most remembered like that. I would think other kingdoms and empire atleast in Asia and Europe carried out their own genocides against insurrgents. In case of Mongol, I would say it was their combined atrocities coast to coast that labeled them as such.

Were the Japanese equally brutal?? if we go back to the ancient time the Achmenides under Daruis and Xerxes were mericless toward rebellious satraps, and so were the Romans. The tartars under Timurlang. In medival times, the Ottoman Turks and Russians.

But to quote Edward Gibbons, the Mongols did a service to mankind by eradicating the Assassins and the Old Man of the Mountain.

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If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery of gunpowder with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind. - Edward Gibbon