Greatest Conqueror Ever

[bipolarbear]

I think American culture would be the real winner here. Scratch that, Americna culture exported via Corporations.
Starbucks, McDonalds, etc. etc.

my proof the new Rammstein music video

https://www.rammstein.com

[The Mad Monk]

Wow...he really was the father of the Mongols...

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Agathon
Then Douglas Adams was right. He makes a joke about the man who bulldozes Arthur Dent's house being a descendent of Ghenghis Khan. If those scientists are right, it is completely plausible.

It depends on which book you read. I recall a particular short story in The Salmon of Peace.

[Mercator]

Genghis Khan was obviously the greatest.

http://home.ca.inter.net/~giskhan/

PWND!!1!

[Drake Tungsten]

I'm going to have to say Minamoto Yo****sune, since he conquered Japan before being run out of the country by his brother and becoming Genghis Khan.

[Patroklos]

Belasarius. reconquered most of the Western Roman empire witn the foundering Byzantine state as his "support."

Not the best, but deserves to be up there.

I think alot of the modern Generals would qualify because taking over even one reletively small advanced modern nation, say France, is a massive undertaking. Of course it is so big there is no "one" general that can claim full credit.

[GePap]

Well, Timur the Lame, or Tamerlane or whatever we decide to call him should be up there but maybe people just think of him as a Mongol second wind.

[Patroklos]

Some of the Muslum generals (Muhammed did little personally) were quite amazing. Unfortunetly their gaisn usually collaped within a decade. But to their credit, the muslims conquored half the known world five times. I guess they like the replayability of their world conquest game.

[Verto]

Napoleon III.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Did I mention Alexander conquered the known world with only 50,000 troops?

How big do you think the Mongol horde was?

By this time, the Mongol army was exhausted by ten years of continuous campaigning against Western Xia and Jin. Therefore, Genghis sent only two tumen under a brilliant young general, Jebe, against Kuchlug. An internal revolt was incited by Mongol agents; then Jebe overran the country. Kuchlug's forces were defeated west of Kashgar; he was captured and executed, and Kara-Khiatn was annexed. By 1218 the Mongol state extended as far west as Lake Balkhash and adjoined Khwarizm, a Muslim state that reached to the Caspian Sea in the west and to the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea in the south.

That's 20,000 men. Alexander isn't so great, afterall.

[Spec]

Voted for the Hun, just because he destroyed the Roman empire.

Spec.

[Velociryx]

Alexander, all the way.

He woulda pwned that punkazz Mongol boy....

-=Vel=-

[SpencerH]

Greatest Conqueror Ever

Conan.

[Arrian]

It's definitely between Khan and Alex.

Both took on immensely powerful (though perhaps clumsy) opponents (Persia & China). China may not have been unified, but then again Persia wasn't really a fully-integrated entity either. If memory serves, the first battle Alex fought against the Persians was against just a local Satrap's army (still larger than his, and he crushed it). After he won that, he had the full attention of the empire (not that it helped).

I'll go with Alexander, in part because I am more familiar with his exploits, and in part because it seems that Khan may have done more delegation (to other generals... Subatoi?), whereas Alex was always right there in the thick of things.

-Arrian

p.s. Napolean should get some extra credit given the equal technology and relative battle prowess of his many opponents. He still lost, twice, though.

[Az]

That's 20,000 men. Alexander isn't so great, afterall.

weren't they purely horsemen, though?