MoulayIsmail forced 25,000 Christian slaves to toil under brutal conditions as laborers in the construction of his capital.
After Ismail's death, his grandson, Mohammad III moved the capital back to Marrakech, and stripped Meknes of much of its riches to build the new imperial city.
Ismail's grand mausoleum is open even to non-Muslims as a testament to the greatness of this effective but barbaric ruler.
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MoulayIsmail the Bloodthirsty (1675-1727) was a (A native or inhabitant of Morocco) Moroccan ruler.
MoulayIsmail enlisted over 25,000 (A religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination) Christian prisoners and 30,000 common criminals as laborers in the construction of his great city.
Ismail's grand mausoleum is open even to non- (A believer or follower of Islam) Muslims as a testament to the greatness of this effective but barbaric ruler.
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MoulayIsmail the Bloodthirsty of lore had a harem of 500 women and sired exactly 888 children.
Moolay “Jafaar” Ismail the Bloodthirsty of the Accenture tribe is not quite so prolific, yet he does lead an intimidating force of 75,000 information, accounting and technology professionals.
Though the tribe of Accenture is technically based in the warm and exotic tax refuge of Bermudistan, we in Illinoisdistan like to claim this tribe as one of our own.
It can be gentility, generosity, trustworthiness or it can be brutality.
The mating record for number of offspring, until recently, was that of MoulayIsmail the Bloodthirsty, said to be 888.
Recently, however, it has turned out, aided by DNA studies, that Genghis Khan far exceeded M.I. the B.D. Even if you're a gentle soul, a little reputation for being someone not to mess with helps.
According to the Guinness Book of Records (1979), an emperor of Morocco, MoulayIsmail the Bloodthirsty (1672-1727) holds the record for the largest number of children, 888.
This Russian woman, the wife of a peasant, produced 16 pairs of twins, seven triplets, and four quadruplets in the period 1725 to 1765.
Her extraordinary number of offspring nevertheless totaled less than 10 percent of the number fathered by Emperor Bloodthirsty.
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: MoulayIsmail the Bloodthirsty (1672-1727), emperor of Morocco was reported to have killed 30,000 people with his own hands, and had 888 children, 4 wives and a harem of 500 concubines.
In most non-Christian societies polygamy has been one of the rewards of high status, and to the extent that status reflects ability, polygamy is eugenic.
It allows huge differences in the numbers of children men can produce; MoulayIsmail the Bloodthirsty, a Moroccan emperor, is said to have fathered 888 children.
In Europe as well, up until about 1800, the wealthy had considerably more children than the poor.
Thus a man can potentially sire far more offspring than a woman.
The record lifetime number of offspring for a man is 888, sired by Emperor MoulayIsmail the Bloodthirsty of Morocco, while the corresponding record for a woman is only 69 (a 19th century Moscow woman specializing in triplets).
Few women have topped 20 children, whearas some men easily do so in polygynous societies.
