Zahiru’d-din Muhammad Babur (1483-1530), a descendant of Genghis Khan, was a warlord from Central Asia who invaded India and founded the Mughal dynasty. He kept a record of his life, now known as “The Babur Nama.”

In it we witness him doing things warlords were wont to do: foe-crushing, plundering, head-lopping, flaying, impaling and so forth. One didn’t want to give one’s enemies the impression one was soft.