>send envoys to states that have never heard of him before>demands their total surrender and capitulation>envoys told to fuck off or killed for being so deliberately insulting>Genghis: "WTF! I NEVER EXPECTED THIS!!! TO WAR!!!"Why did he keep doing this? Why was he such a pussy and always framing his wars as some kind of reprisal for disrespect/cruelty?
>>18247463Every Empire does the same from the Romans to the Americans, they all engage in the same "pre-emptive" invasion.
>>18247463It was a universal psychological & logistical 200IQ hack.By offering an impossible ultimatum, he instantly identified>the most arrogant/prideful states (they'd kill envoys).>their political cohesion (did the ruler or the underlings make the call?).>their military readiness (immediate response?)
>>18247470Just sucks for the envoys
If a conquering alien civilization that we have never heard of before sent envoys to earth demanding our submission, what would humanity do? Would they kill the envoy for disrespect?
>>18247468Previous Chinese Dynasties did this as well, but the envoys would give lavish gifts and riches to the foreign states and only really demand that Chinese supremacy be acknowledged. The idea being that giving away riches shows how rich you are. They didn't even ask for taxes or gifts in return.
>>18247509If aliens sent envoys demanding our submission we should probably surrender since the mere fac they have space travel puts them so far beyond us technologically that we stand zero chance.
>>18247501>Your task is to make first contact and then demand their surrender and submission! Good luck, buddy!
>>18247463>Merchants showed up and got killed for their goods by ruler of city>Envoys sent to lord of said ruler, seeks compensation and punishment of the low level ruler >Envoys get mistreated>Genghis chimps harshlyFair enough
>>18247528There is some science fiction short story where this happens, but it turns out that the aliens had relatively few wars in their history, so even though their transportation tech is centuries ahead of humans, their military tech is centuries behind, so the humans beat them easily, and also capture their transportation tech, which means that the warlike, barbaric humanity is free to wreak havoc in the galaxy.
>>18247720>>18247463This is what happened the first time he sent envoys to Transoxiana. No wonder he developed a habit of destroying cities for slaying envoys.
>>18247463>>envoys told to fuck off or killed for being so deliberately insultingIs there any record about envoys being killed that actually comes from any other source but the "Secret History of the Mongols"?Because it really sounds to me like a piece of shit imperial propaganda and extremely weird for every country to disregard one of the most sacred laws of nations all of sudden.
>>18247771Tarikh-i Jahangushay & Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīk?
>>18247470Make all your wars of conquest "defensive" with this one simple trick!
Killing messengers is a unmistakable declaration of war
>>18247470Killing and looting China was much more profitable and simpler tho
