Because he tolerated all the religions, or for other reasons?
It´s just the idea I got off him from reading Marco Polo´s travels. He seems to have been rather openminded to any school of thought
Because he tolerated all the religions, or for other reasons?
I'd rather interpret it in the way that people rebel less often if you don't try to suppress their religion.
Which makes an interesting POD: WI Genghis, or any other Mongol ruler, had tried to spread the Mongol religion, with the big sky god?
If the Islamic States in 800s had gone more serious in invading China, would all or at least part of China would be Muslim?