Wolf of the Plains is the first book in Conn Igguldens Conqueror series. The book is about a young boy named Temudjin that gets abandoned by his tribe on the harsh Mongolian plains. He hunted by his fathers old tribe and all alone and the thing he is dreaming about is revenge against his enemies. In time he would unite all the Mongolian tribes and be known as Genghis Khan.
First of all if you haven´t read this series I highly recommend it, I can also recommend you to read Conn Igguldens Emperor series which is about Julius Caesar.
After reading Wolf of the Plains I started thinking about how much the world has evolved in different ways.
The first thing that came to mind was the technological evolution inside the military. To conquer the biggest empire the world have ever known Genghis mostly used bow and arrow. To communicate with his generals he used messengers on fast horses or sound signals. In today's world we use machine guns and we have a constant radio-contact with all the platoons. Well I know that today we have peace treaties and nuclear bombs it´s a bit harder to conquer so much land like Genghis did, but nevertheless, with the resources he had we should not take away his accomplishments.
The second thing that came to mind was that everyone had their chores and no one complaint (well no one complained in the book). The children was trained in a trained to a occupation from a young age so they could take the occupation when their master died. Well heir there is a big difference between then and today. Today you can choose be whatever you want to be as long as you have the grades for it. Everyone or most of the people today complain about their chores and wishes they can do something else instead.
The biggest question I got is how great conquerors and/or emperors such as: Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great and Attila the Hun would do with today's military technology? And which one of them would win the world in a war between all of them?
