Outside Reading Post 10

Wow, my 10th post. Woot. Well anyways, lately I've been reading a lot of AP World. Yup, suprised ? Well don't be. Anyways, the chapter that we have been studying this week was, "Early African Societies and Mongols in China". So far, I've learned tons ! I've learned that Genghis Khan, the leader of the mongols, conquered more than twice as any man in history. I also found out that he conquered enough land to span most of North America and about half of South America. From one of my readings, "...he was a man that conquered all for the expansion of his empire." From here you can see that one of the reasons why he conquered was because of this idea to have a huge, united empire. That kind of devotion and hard work really paid off for Genghis. I really enjoyed the idea of conquest back around the 500-1500 C.E. time period. Just imagining tons of regions that were weak, and then here you come and conquer that region, you'd own it and have the power to control it. That is a nice thought.