Genghis Khan | |||||
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Genghis Khan as portrayed in a 14th-century Yuan era album; the original version was in black and white. Original size is 47 cm wide and 59.4 cm high. Paint and ink on silk. Now located in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. | |||||
1st Great Khan of the Mongol Empire | |||||
Reign | Spring 1206 – August 18, 1227 | ||||
Coronation | Spring 1206 in a Kurultai at the Onon River, Mongolia | ||||
Successor | Ögedei Khan | ||||
Born | Temüjin[note 1] likely 1162[2] Khentii Mountains, Khamag Mongol | ||||
Died | August 18, 1227[3] (aged 64–65) Yinchuan, Western Xia | ||||
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House | The Imperial House of Borjigin | ||||
Dynasty | Genghisid | ||||
Father | Yesügei | ||||
Mother | Hoelun | ||||
Religion | Tengrism |
It is possible, however, to say with certainty that Genghis Khan died in August 1227; only in specifying the actual day of his death do our sources disagree.
Beheadings and mass slaughter are the hallmark of IS – whole villages massacred, women cast into slavery. But this butchery is not random. It is callous and calculated, as former British intelligence officer Alastair Crooke points out: 'They in fact in some ways copy Genghis Khan and the Mongol approach to military conquest. You create an absolute fear deliberately in your enemies, and the first time you come to a village you kill everyone, the dogs, the cats, everything. Destroy it down to the ground.'
Library resources about Genghis Khan |
House of Borjigin (1206–1635) Born: c. 1162Died: 1227 | ||
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Preceded by Hotula Khan | Khagan of Khamag Mongol 1189–1206 | Khamag Mongol ended, succeeded by Mongol Empire |
New title | Khagan of the Mongol Empire 1206–1227 | Succeeded by Tolui As regent |