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[–] coffeekomrade@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah I mean, if anything, mongols were imperialistic, expanding their empire during the 13th and 14th centuries and using violence to do so.

They were tribal PRIOR to Khan uniting them in to a single empire that then spread in to the largest contiguous empire in the known history of mankind.