The Great Khans and the Mongol Imperium
'The greatest joy for a man is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all they possess, to see those they love in tears, to ride their horses, and to hold their wives and daughters in his arms'.
'Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard'.
Genghis Khan (r. 1206-27)
In the 13th century a new power arose in the Central Asian steppe, rapidly conquering the entire length of the Silk Road from China in the east to Syria in the west, united under a single ruler for the first time in history. The driving force behind this new empire was Mongol expansion, and the man who oversaw it was a nomadic ruler called Temujin, who would later assume the title Genghis Khan (1206-27), the name by which he would be remembered – with a shudder by settled peoples from Xi'an to Baghdad, but with fierce pride by the Mongol peoples...
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'Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard'.
Genghis Khan (r. 1206-27)
In the 13th century a new power arose in the Central Asian steppe, rapidly conquering the entire length of the Silk Road from China in the east to Syria in the west, united under a single ruler for the first time in history. The driving force behind this new empire was Mongol expansion, and the man who oversaw it was a nomadic ruler called Temujin, who would later assume the title Genghis Khan (1206-27), the name by which he would be remembered – with a shudder by settled peoples from Xi'an to Baghdad, but with fierce pride by the Mongol peoples...
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