Genghis Khan
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Middle Ages
- Categories: Government and Politics, Military History, Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution
- Subcategories: Invasions, Raids, Conquests, Sieges, Emperors, Caesars, Khans
- Curriculum: Asian History
Article abstract: A military genius, Genghis Khan united the clans and tribes of peoples later collectively known as the Mongols, leading them on conquests to the east, south, and west and organizing the Mongol Empire—which under his grandson, Kublai, came to dominate eighty percent of Eurasia.
Early Life
Temüjin, as Genghis Khan was first named, was born in the village of Delyun Boldog on the Odon River in the northeastern borderlands between Mongolia and China on the fringes of the Gobi Desert between 1155 and 1162. Historians cannot agree on the...
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