Tuesday 01, February 2011 by Isla MacFarlane
History’s greenest conqueror
During those strange days of my life that I spent living in Ulaan Baator, Outer Mongolia, there were many things I struggled to understand: how to order a vegetarian dish when there is no word in Mongolian for vegetarian; how a language can have over 300 words to describe a horse but only two for grass and vegetables; how a minus-something breeze could sweep into an achingly hot day plummeting the temperature within seconds; however, what came to puzzle me the most is how, nearly eight centuries on from his reign of terror, Chinggis Khaan was still revered as a national hero.
