Warm, wet weather may have helped Genghis Khan rule
It is however certainly not the first news about Genghis Khan and the climate.
Read the following items published earlier in the period 2011- 2013:
From 27 January 2011:
Was Genghis Khan history's greenest conqueror? By Bryan Nelson in Mother Nature Network
From 23 september 2012
The expansion of the Scythians across Central Asia was in response to a climate change that made the Steppes cooler but wetter ca. 850 BC. Being wetter made for more grass growth, despite the cooler temperatures.
ReplyDeleteI've used this as part of an argument that there were internal migrations in India at the same time in response to warmer, drier conditions.