One little note on Dan Jones' work (since I mentioned him as a major source for my research into Sigurd Magnusson); another book of his I've read, "Powers and Thrones", an overall history of the Middle Ages, contains a tidbit that ties in well with another of Greg Weisman's projects. Jones mentioned that the cause of Genghis Khan's death is unknown, with various different stories about how he died, including getting struck by lightning or slain with a poisoned arrow. And in "Young Justice", Genghis Khan was a past alias of Vandal Savage's (I haven't seen the episode which made that revelation, but I've read about it), suggesting (assuming that the same clashing stories about Genghis Khan's passing were told in Earth-16) that apparently he ran into some unexpected trouble with a consistent cover story about his passing. (A bit like one of those moments in sit-coms where two people have concocted a story together but didn't work out all the details in advance, leading to something like, say, the invented story involving a dog, and when they're asked what kind of dog it was, one says it was a poodle, the other a cocker spaniel - simultaneously.)
On a more somber note, Dan Jones reports that Genghis Khan had everyone who worked on his tomb put to death afterwards - from the "Young Justice" perspective, it's tempting to see that as Vandal Savage's way of keeping his survival a secret.
Todd Jensen
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