The most famous Mongolian person in all history was Genghis Khan. He is the founder of the Mongol Empire, which was able to become the largest continental empire in the entire existence of mankind. Genghis Khan is not a name, but a title that was bestowed on the ruler Temujina at the end of the 12th century at the kurultai.
For 30 years, the Mongol horde led by Genghis Khan was able to march across Asia, killing one-tenth of all people on Earth and conquering almost a quarter of the land.
During the reign of Genghis Khan, special cruelty was manifested. Some of his actions, even today, are considered the most cruel among the actions of all rulers on Earth. The reign of Genghis Khan greatly influenced the development of the spiritual and political life of the population of many regions in Asia.
1. When Genghis Khan was born, he was given the name Temuchin. The military leader was also called, whom the father of the future ruler was able to defeat.
2. Genghis Khan's dad, at the age of 9, married a son and a 10-year-old girl from the Ungirat clan. In this marriage, 4 sons and 5 daughters were born. One of these daughters of Alangaa, in the absence of her father, began to rule the state, for which she acquired the title of "princess-ruler".
3. When Genghis Khan was 10 years old, he dared to kill his own brother. This happened on the basis of a conflict over prey brought from hunting.
4. In modern Mongolia, it was possible to erect many monuments dedicated to Genghis Khan, because in this state he was considered a national hero.
5. The name "Chingiz" means "lord of water".
6. After he managed to conquer all the steppes, Genghis Khan was awarded the title of kagan - the king of all khans.
7. According to modern estimates, about 40 million people died from the actions of the Mongol army of Genghis Khan.
8. The second wife of Genghis Khan - Merkit Khulan-Khatun, gave birth to 2 sons to the Khan. Only Khulan-Khatun, as a wife, accompanied the ruler in almost every military campaign. In one of these campaigns, she died.
9. Genghis Khan made good use of dynastic marriages. He married his own daughters to allied rulers. To marry the daughter of the great Mongol khan, the ruler drove all his own wives, which made the Mongol princesses the first in line to the throne. After that, the ally at the head of the army went to war, and almost immediately died in battle, and Genghis Khan's daughter ruled the lands.
10. Two other spouses of Genghis Khan - Tatars Yesui and Yesugen were the elder and younger sister. At the same time, the younger sister herself proposed her older sister as the fourth wife of the khan. She did this on their wedding night. Yesugen gave birth to her husband a daughter and 2 sons.
11. In addition to 4 wives, Genghis Khan had about 1000 concubines who came to him as a result of the victory as a gift from the allies.
12. The largest-scale campaign of Genghis Khan was against the Jin empire. From the very beginning, it seemed that such a campaign had no future, because the population of China was equal to 50 million, and the Mongols were only 1 million.
13. Dying, the great Mongol ruler appointed 3 sons from Ogedei as his own heir. It was he who, according to the khan, had a military strategy and a lively political mind.
14. In 1204, Genghis Khan managed to establish a writing system in Mongolia, which was known as the Old Uigur writing system. It was this writing that was continuously used until modern times. In fact, she was taken over from the Uighur tribes, which was conquered by the Mongol horde.
15. During the reign of the great Genghis Khan, it was possible to create "Yasak" or a code of laws, which described in detail the expected behavior of the citizens of the empire and punishment for those who broke the laws. The ban could include mockery of animals, kidnapping, theft and, oddly enough, slavery.
16. Genghis Khan was considered a shamanist, like many other Mongols of that time. Despite this, he maintained a tolerance for the presence of other religions in his own empire.
17. Probably one of Genghis Khan's most incredible achievements was the creation of an organized postal system in his empire.
18. Genetic studies have shown that approximately 8% of Asian men have Genghis Khan genes on their Y chromosomes.
19. It is estimated that in Central Asia alone there are 16 million people who were descendants of this Mongol emperor.
20. According to legends, Genghis Khan was born holding a blood clot in his fist, which could predict his fate as a ruler.
21. Genghis Khan is 50% Asian, 50% European.
22. For 21 years of his own rule, Genghis Khan managed to conquer a territory that exceeded 30 million square kilometers. This is a larger territory than any other conquered by any other ruler in the entire history of mankind.
23. According to historians, they call Genghis Khan the father of the "Scorched Earth".
24. His portrait was printed on Mongolian banknotes in the 90s of the previous century.
25. Genghis Khan poured molten silver into the ears and eyes of his own rivals. He also enjoyed bending a person, like a bow, until the person's spine broke.
26. Genghis Khan liked women very much, and after each victory he chose the most beautiful captives for himself and his own army. The great khan even organized beauty contests among the concubines.
27. This land conqueror was able to defeat 500,000 Chinese warriors before gaining full control over Beijing and North China.
28. It seemed to Genghis Khan that the more offspring a person has, the more significant he is as a person.
29. This great ruler died in 1227 at the age of 65. The place where he was buried is classified, and the reasons for his death are unknown.
30. Presumably, Genghis Khan demanded that his grave be drowned by the river so that no one could disturb her.
