Did you know you can't actually see the Great Wall of China from space? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China I mean, ya, with modern satellite imagery where you can see individual people… (View Post)

Timur The Lame, better known as Tamerlane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur destroyed the qanat system in Persia, and the region has definitely never recovered. Iran used to be a much more fertile … (View Post)

Oh wow, somebody else that likes Messer Chups! Ever hear of The Red Elvises? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34mqh0eVQPw They're most well known for doing the soundtrack to the movie Six String Samur… (View Post)

So how about this guy, Hulagu Khan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulagu_Khan One of the more interesting Khans. While he never was Great Khan, he ruled over a big chunk of the middle east. He's the … (View Post)

Maybe Thucydides? Still not quite like you described, but he was a retired general when he wrote about the Peloponnesian wars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides Herodotus seems a bit of a stre… (View Post)