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Genghis Khan was born on August 18, 1227, and his birth name was Temüjin. He was the founder and the first great Khan emperor of the Mongol Empire, which, as time passed, became the largest contiguous empire in the history of this planet.
Genghis Khan rose from humble beginnings and went on to establish the largest land empire in history. He played a very important role in uniting the nomadic tribes of the Mongolian plateau, and he also conquered big lands of Central Asia and China. After he established the Mongol Empire, he was named by his followers and admirers Genghis Khan, which translates to as the ‘oceanic, universal ruler. The Mongol invasions, led by Genghis Khan, conquered most of Eurasia, reaching as far west as Poland in Europe and the Levant in the Middle East. Campaigns against the Qara Khitai, Khwarezmia, Western Xia, and Jin empires and invasions into Medieval Georgia, Kievan Rus', and Volga Bulgaria were launched during his lifetime.
Even after his death, Genghis Khan's descendants expanded his empire even further and went as far as Poland, Vietnam, Syria,
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Yesugei
| “ | I thought I would never feel the cold in my bones back then. I had an idea that I would be given nothing in my life, that everything I had would be taken by my wits and by my strength. — Yesugei, from Wolf of the Plains by Conn Iggulden | ” |
Yesugei Baghatur or Yesükhei was the head of the Kiyad sub-clan and a major chief in the Khamag Mongol as well as the father of Temüjin, later known as Genghis Khan.
He was married to Hoelun, mother of Genghis, who he captured from her tribe, the Olkhunut, whom he would later take Genghis to, in order to find him a bride. When traveling back to his own tribe Yesugei stopped for a feast with a group of men he met, but little did he know that they were Tartars, out to avenge Temüjin-üge who had been killed by Yesugi many years before.
While they harmlessly feasted together, the Tartars secretly poisoned Yesugei's food. He managed to make it back to the Kiyad before the poison took effect but would later succumb to his wounds, declaring Temüjin to be his successor. The tribesmen refused to accept him, however, due
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| Genghis Khan and the Great Mongolian Empire | |||
| Born into the aristocracy of the Kiyat clan, Borjigin tribe, Temujin (later Genghis Khan) might have followed his father Yesugei as clan chief. But the clan deserted his camp after Yesugei was murdered by Tatar enemies. Ten-year-old Temujin, his mother Ho'elun, and his siblings were left to the elements and their enemies. * | |||
Over the next two decades, Temujin formed a group of faithful followers and arranged important alliances with various tribal chiefs, which helped him to succeed in his campaigns to reclaim first the Kiyat clan and then the Borjigin tribe. By 1189, he had united the Mongolian tribes. He then organized them to conquer his blood enemies, the Tatars, and then the Naiman (the powerful Turkic tribe to the west). In 1206, the Great Huraltai (Great Assembly of Mongolian tribesmen) proclaimed Temujin supreme ruler of the Unified Mongolian State, giving him the title of Genghis Khan, or Universal Ruler. * Genghis Khan then reorganized the Mongolian tribal structure into a military organization. He d Copyright ©damtree.pages.dev 2025 | |||