The Mongols certainly. an estimated 11% of the entire world’s population (40–60 million + dead) over the course of their rampage across China, Asia, the Middle east and South Eastern Europe. It is said they single handedly reduced the carbon footprint of humanity by killing so many people based on carbon levels trapped in ice cores and examined by modern scientists.
One of the keys to Mongold success was the reputation for complete extermination of those who would oppose them. Any city-state or nation that dared oppose them militarily were exterminated. Every man, woman and child were killed without mercy. Those who found a Mongol envoy at their castle gates were sure to consider carefully their response based on the reputation that preceded the Mongol hordes.
The Assyrians were strong, with well-trained professional armies and could be quite destructive as well, annihilating whole cities out of revenge or as scorched-earth policy while retreating etc. But never as wide-spread or to the level of ferocity the Mongolian Horde.
Mongol 1258 Siege of Baghdad, An estimated 200,000 to 800,000 civilians were slaughtered, the city razed:
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