The Crowd · Character
Ghengis Khan
Conqueror used as an example of destructive crowd-led power.
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Also known as Ghengis Khan and Tamerlane, Tamerlane
First appearance: the crowd
Ghengis Khan shows up with force in III: The Ideas, Reasoning Power, and Imagination of Crowds. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Mentioned as an example of the hecatombs caused by the promulgation of an idea, alongside Tamerlane.
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In III: The Ideas, Reasoning Power, and Imagination of Crowds: Mentioned as an example of the hecatombs caused by the promulgation of an idea, alongside Tamerlane. Later, in The Ideas of Crowds: Mentioned as a…
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