Question

4. What percentage of the world population was estimated to have been killed during Genghis Khan's conquests?(2 points)
Responses

A. 5%
A. 5%

B. 10%
B. 10%

C. 15%
C. 15%

D. 20%

Answer 1

B. 10% — historians often estimate the Mongol conquests killed on the order of tens of millions (commonly cited ~40 million), roughly 10% of the world's population then.