Quote Originally Posted by Agent Miles View Post
The best info I can find is that the Mongols may have killed 40 million people, so its not even close, really. Also, their expansion ended without the invention and use of a weapon that could destroy all life on Earth.
The Nanking massacre is called the greatest single act of discriminated murder in military invasion of World War 2. Highest estimates reach the 500,000. (Remember, this is a densely populous chinese city in the 20th Century)

Then you have Mongol Chinese campaigns, which made the Chinese population go from 60 million to 10 million.
Then you have massacres like the one at Nishapur, which killed 1,750,000 people in one go.
Then another one at Herat which estimates range from 1,500,000 to 2,500,000 deaths in one go.
Then you have yet another one in Maru, which ranges around 1,300,000 in one go.

(One go might be a massacre of several weeks/months, but the point is that they didn't finish until they massacred ALL those that weren't useful to them.)

Now let me ask. Would you rather have lived in a city that was part of the Mongol attacks or a city that was part of a German/Japanese/Allied attack?