Essays on Genghis Khan

At the beginning of the 13th century, Genghis Khan united most of the Mongolian tribes into one state under his own administration. He became the first Mongolian Khan and actually the most influential one. He was the first who organized the conquests to China, Middle Asia, Eastern Europe and Caucasus. That made it possible to determine Mongolian state and later empire as one of the most powerful institution of the Middle Age. What is more, the Mongol Empire was the largest country in the world history covering at the once over 38 million square meters (May). The rise of ...

The thirteenth century to the seventeenth century can be considered a period of ascendancy as there are many examples of dominance and the fight for superiority between various groups and empires: most notably through the Mongol Empire, the destruction of the Abbasid Empire, and the consolidation of the Ottoman Empire. In the thirteenth century, Mongol invasions were rampant all over Asia, leading through the Middle East and into Europe. They were sent by the Mongol Empire to gain territorial expansion across Eurasia and the Middle East. Mongol armies led by Genghis Khan invaded Iraq and Iran beginning in the ...

The Mongols are an ethnic group of people. They lived as minorities in areas of China and Russia. Their origin can be traced to the 8th century. They were equated with ethnic groups such as Magog and Tungusic. Their ancestry was traced back to the nomadic confederation that had occupied Manchuria and Eastern Mongolia. Mongols indeed lived a nomadic lifestyle in search of mostly food and pasture, also for adventure. Mongolia received 250 cloudless days in a year. Their only way for survival was mobility hence their nomadic lifestyle. It was a demanding lifestyle to avoid the hazardous environments ( ...

Introduction

Mongol empire derived from the various tribes fighting among each other for the piece of land and inheritance. Such adversity and controversy led to the decrease of the power of each tribe and its commander within one’s territory. Mongol empire might not have been established, if not the Genghis Khan, who was able to unite it, consolidate the power in own hands and conquer vast territories, that led to sufficient expand of the Mongol Empire throughout the centuries. Mongol Empire is a vivid example of the transformation of the tribal union under the impact of a charismatic leader. ...

The Mongol Empire was formed in a slow and gradual process which began with the unification of the Mongol and the Turkic tribes which occupied the Mongolian Steppes. By 1206, Temujin unified the tribes of Mongolia into a single super tribe they called Khamag Mongol Ulus. This helped them to reorganize themselves and dissolve old tribal lines hence making them regroup into more basic groups of armies. The Mongolian empire was ruled by several leaders and during these times, they registered specific achievements. However, during the rule of emperor Chinggis Khan, the Mongol empire registered a great change in ...

Genghis Khan - this name is known to everyone. Conqueror of the world, characterized by extreme cruelty, is interesting for many historians. This person has left a trail of blood in history: Genghis Khan conquered vast territories, as well as many nations. The scale of his conquests was enormous. In memory of humanity, they have left the strongest impression. Genghis Khan is definitely different from other great rulers, power-hungry invaders. No one had so unquenchable thirst for cruelty, brutality and destruction of everything that occurred on the way. There may have impact the Middle Ages, however, in this case, ...

Media and the History of Globalization

Introduction Globalization is one of the major forces that is impacting the global economy today. Globalization refers to the tendency of businesses moving out of their home markets and enteringother markets resulting in the interconnectedness of markets around the world. The term globalization is not limited to businesses alone. It also refers to the interchange of ideas, products, world views, and cultural aspects. Even though the term was coined in the recent past, globalization is not a recent phenomenon. The process of globalization of economies has started some thousands of years ago. But the process gained momentum since the ...

The Mongolian Empire was very vast and divided into four Khanates, ruled separately by an individual Khan, and also overruled by the Great Khan. The Ilhhanatre had ruled Persia as well as Middle East, the Kipchak Khanate had ruled Rushia, Great Khanate had controlled China and Mongolia, and Chagatai Khanate has ruled Western Asia. In the year 1260, Genghis Khan’s grandson, named Kublai Khan became the Great Khan. After four years, he moved his capital to Beijing from Mongolia in the Northern China for the purpose of ruling China. However, in the year 1271, Kublai Khan adopted the ...

Iranian civilization history

For the first time in history in the 13th century a phenomenon arose in central Asia of a virtual world war due to the fury of the Mongolians. The existence of new tormentors amidst them was something the Euro/Asiatic land masses did not expect as the Mongol tribe unleashed their fury on them. The few works of art that have lived to give an impression of how the invaders looked like being just two objects that show similar images but different cultures of the Mongol conquerors: The furthest point to the west that the Mongols reached which in recent times ...

Abstract

The rise of Mongolia King named Genghis Khan remains one of the most dramatic happenings of the 11th Century. Documented history indicates that Khan was the founder and ruler of the Mongol Empire for 21 years until 1227. Most of the documented works about the Mongol ruler came from the voluminous script titled, “The secret history of the Mongols”. The source strays into describing the early life of Khan, adventures that facilitates his rise into power, and finally the aftermath of his leadership. Scholars from different cultural backgrounds have spent considerable time trying to establish facts about this unparalleled ...

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During the 1200s, Islam has proven itself as a dominant religion throughout parts of Asia, Europe and Africa, now collectively known as the Middle East. Islam has encountered numerous challenges to its integrity, particularly from the Roman Catholics through the Holy Crusades, which eventually collapsed during the late 1100s through the Islamic liberation of Jerusalem. The Islamic civilization proved groundbreaking not just in religious affairs, but also in terms of establishing intellectual potency and political strength within all influenced territories. The city of Baghdad, now the capital of present-day Iraq, stood as ...

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Genghis Khan was born in the 12th century near Ulaanbaatar. He was the third born in a family of 5 sons. The life and history of Genghis Khan dates back in the year 1162. The name is mentioned in the history of Europe and Asia. He ruled an empire that stretched from Russia to China (Juergensmeyer, 2008). Even though Genghis Khan died 800 years ago, his complicated legacy of Mongol is still felt up-to-date.

Genghis Khan's Life

History of Genghis Khan early life is contradictory. He was born in the year 1162, despite some sources indicating that it was between the ...

In a section of Edward Abbey's The Journey Home, the author comments on the apparently nebulous appeal of the desert, passionately asking his readers, "why go into the desert? Really, why do it?" (Abbey). While this passage, at first, seems to be a condemnation of the dangerous and hazardous nature of the desert and all its wildlife in particular, the passion by which he describes the desert itself is exactly what makes it appealing. By playing up this sense of danger and righteous fascination with the unknown, the reader is almost defied to love the desert; here, Abbey play-acts the role ...

It was a time of transformation; it was the early 13th century and add this very moment the two tectonic plates of religion and global trade were shifting and capturing new geographies. Genghis Khan proved to be a revolution in the Mongolian history and he conquered without fail with an idea of creating universal harmony through subjugation of all other races. His methods included a lot of slaughter to gain access to other empires and by the time he died is Empire got extended to Russia and China and was also touching the areas that led to Christian Europe. Man (2006) ...

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World is a book by Jack Weatherford that focus on the developments that took place in Europe many centuries age. A trade revolution saw that mongoloids make remarkable changes that transformed the continent. Genghis Khan is the focus of the story considering his decision to retract from the European society and adopted into the mongolism. The attitude thaw s held against the mongolism during this point of time considered him an outcast who did not have the interests of the people at heart. Mongol were hunters and gathers who moved from one ...

The book is an exhaustive illustration of the above thesis subject since it exploits Khan’s military skills. The text equally elucidates the lustrous western perception of the Mongolis as savages because they brought civilization to its knees. The Mongals dealt ruthlessly with the ruling classes whilst they were overly friendly and liberal with the common masses that comprised of the peasants, tradesmen and extra. They levied little taxes to them; they treated with much tolerance and accommodation of divergent aspects of the locals’ culture and religion. Khan is also showcased as a ruthless barbaric blood thirsty individual that leads a ...

The Mongol Empire is today credited to be the largest continuous land empire to have ever existed, spanning the geographical areas from Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Sea of Japan, Siberia, South East Asia, through the Indian subcontinent to the Middle East. The Empire rose in the thirteenth and fourteenth century, following the unification of the Mongol and Turkic tribes. Its rise to superiority was almost spontaneous, but so was its fall. Despite the well-organized military, a massive labor force when needed and vast supply of almost all kinds of resources, the empire finally collapsed in the period shortly after 1335 ...