Genghis Khan Killed How Many

August 22nd, 2010

Question: what are the numbers for these genocides/mass-murders....?

how many did Mao kill?
how many indians were killed in north america?
how many were killed in the bolshevik revolution?
how many did genghis khan kill?
how many in the Armenian genocide?
Answer: - Mao did not directly order the murders of people that can be seen as genocidal. Like most dictators, he took out his opposition, but he was not a genocidal maniac. Maybe a mass-murderer at the most. But, it was his "Cultural Revolution" that caused deaths on a colossal scale via famine, disease and starvation. The Chinese government claims 30 million died during it, but historians put a figure anywhere from 40 million - 79 million.
- On the Armenian Genocide; figures vary between 600,000 (Modern Turkish estimate) right through to 1,5 million (Western and Armenian government estimate).
- During the Bolshevik Revolution, it was mainly famine and starvation that killed many people. The high estimate puts the number at 10 million. Lenin has been tasked with "killing" 10,000 people. And the Bolshevik Revolution also saw two phases of Civil War, so it's not really a genocide. More a revolutionary Civil War.
- It's hard to get a figure on how many people died under the expanison of the Mongol Empire. He conquered vast areas so it is difficult to get a figure and alot of the territory was not heavily populated. And also, considering the time period, populations were not that big either. The average figures vary between 2-4 million. But like I say, it's hard.
- There are no solid figures on Pre-Colombian Native American populations. The total population number of all the Americas pre-colonialism has gone from 10 million to the current figure of around 100 million. And historians say as much as 80% of the Native American population died from European diseases and subsequent wars and extermination. As I say, this is not a figure for North America alone, but for the entire Americas. And the Native Americans did not keep population censuses, so we will never know their exact population sizes.
Very few of these events could actually be tagged as genocides in all honesty. A genocide is the intentional act of destroying another a group. Only the Armenian genocide fits the bill and possibly the colonisation of the Americas. Genghis Khan was just building an Empire, like Rome & Greece done before him and the British after him. I've already stated that the Bolshevik revolution was more of a revolutionary Civil War that an outright attempt to destroy another group and Mao did not intend to destroy his people othet than his opponents. He just wanted a quick-fix, and harsh, plan to better their lives which ironically made their lives worse.