The Nature of Genghis Khans Power and Success

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The life of Genghis Examine the nature of Genghis' power during his succession and reign. Genghis is mentioned throughout the history of Europe and Asia, being glorified in some Asian literature and also to millions of people has been vilified as an evil incarnate. This essay will examine the nature of Genghis’s power during his reign and how he used his succession and power to expand the Mongol empire. Genghis was born in central Mongolia and was named Temujin after a Tatar chieftain that his father Yusukei had captured. During his early years he led a fairly uneventful life, at the age of 9 his parents arranged a marriage for him from a different tribe and his father left making him stay with his future wife. As his father set to return home he encountered the members of a rival tribe the Tatars who invited him for a meal, where he was fatally poisoned for his past conflicts against the Tatars. Upon his father's death Genghis was rejected the position of clan chief and him and his family were exiled to a near refugee status where the pressure of surviving in the wild eventually led to the death of his half-brother for attempting to steal a fish from Genghis. At the age of 20 former family allies the Taichi'uts captured and temporarily enslaved Genghis, but with the help of a sympathetic captor he was able to escape and reunite with his brothers where he would form his first army of around 20,000 people and begin his slow ascent to power. At first he set out to conquer various tribes and unite the Mongols under his rule. Genghis was a brutal and merciless leader and a brilliant military strategist and through this combination he avenged the death of his father by conquering the Tatar army and killing every tatarn did not exceed more then 3 feet tall. Temujin then set out to conquer the Taichi'uts for there past transgressions against him, through a massive

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