5 Asian Rulers Who Committed Horrific Acts of Evil

These five men were ruthless

An illustration of Genghis Khan by an unknown artist, c. fourteenth century (Wikimedia Commons)

For those of us who grew up in the West, school history lessons were always dominated by European and American history. We know about the French Revolution, the American Civil War, and the horrors of Nazi Germany, but our knowledge of Asian history is pretty thin.