Genghis+Khan

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 * Genghis Khan(1155-1227)

Genghis Khan rose to power through instilling fear into his enemies. At the age of nine his father was poisoned by the Tatars, another civilization in the German area. His name, before it was changed to Genghis was Temujin. By the time he died he had founded an empire that expanded from the sea of Japan to western Europe. In the next paragraphs I will talk about these facts.

At his young age he was struck with a terrible event of his father's death. The poison was from the Tatars who were another civilization around the Mongolian area. When Temujin reached an old enough age he was crowned the new leader and renamed Genghis, meaning universal ruler. Khan was the name for the Mongolian rulers such as king, prince, duke etc,.

Genghis' name suited him because he founded an empire that ranged from the sea of Japan to the edge of western Europe. First in his line of conquests was the unification of the Mongolian tribes. Following that his new army with the united mongols conquered the other Germanic areas around them with the help of their new invention, the iron stirrup. In the end he conquered the Persians, Arabians, Indians, and lastly he conquered the last of the civilizations, the Chinese with the fall of Peking in 1215. He died of natural causes in 1227 before his plans for the completion of the empire could be carried out.

Works Cited  DGM
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 * “File: Genghis Khan.jpg.” Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Foundation, 15 Jan. 2010. Web. 1 Apr. 2010. .
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