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Genghis Khan's rule and life

By Hexagon_Polygon
  • Period: 1162 to 1206

    Genghis Khan uses his birthname; Temujin.

    Genghis Khan uses his birthname; Temujin, but afterwards he renames himself: The glorious Genghis Khan.
  • 1172

    Temujin kills His older brother.

    After a hunt with his older brother Bekhter, Temujin thinks that he was treated unfairly when handed out the spoils. So he kills his brother and is ranked a warrior among his people.
  • 1197

    Temujin begins his rise to Power.

    Temujin found that he wanted to unite all of the mongol tribes to create a great nation, known as Mongolia, he started by uniting two great tribes. He then kills Wang Khan, a man of great power. Making his own power higher.
  • 1201

    Temujin has a war with jamukha

    Jamukha was becoming a "universal leader". Being a blood brother of Temujin, they were both already having conflict, Temujin had enough men to go to war with him. So he did. He had gained 20,00 men. And proclaimed that he would unite the tribes, by destroying their traditional divisions.
  • 1206

    Temujin Becomes the legendary Genghis Khan

    Temujin reunites all of the clans and tribes of mongol, and renames himself to Genghis khan. Meaning "universal leader". Roughly.
  • 1209

    Genghis Khan begins his frist campaign

    Genghis khan leads an army of deadly cavalry men, with bows and arrows. He leads them against northern china, or the Xi Xia kingdom. Eventually the Xi Xia ruler submits to Khan.
  • 1211

    Khan attacks the Jin dynasty

    The mongols lead by Genghis, were outnumbered, but they attacked the peasants living on the outskirts of the cities. This caused huge amounts of refugees to go into the cities causing food shortages. This made the Jin dynasty kill a lot of their own people to conserve food.
  • 1214

    The jin dynasty finally surrenders.

    After a long war, Genghis Khan finally sieges the capital. Zhongdu. The ruler of the Jin dynasty surrenders and overs the whole city and thousands of people to Khan's cause. But he then moves the capital from the north, this makes Genghis see this as a breach of what they agreed, and then he destroys Zhongdu.
  • 1219

    Khwarezmia Empire Betrays Khan

    Genghis had made an agreement to the Khwarezmia Empire. to trade with the sultan. But when his first caravan arrived they were killed, along with the guards following it. Enraged, Genghis decided "hey, lets go destroy them even though we are outnumbered. He wins.
  • 1223

    Genghis Khan decides to conquer most of asia.

    After his great victory against the Khwarezmian Empire, Genghis khan sends his general Subutai to attack Georgia, Kievan Rus', and Hungary. While he went on to capture northern India and Afghanistan.
  • 1226

    Genghis Khan destroys the last trace of the Xi Xia.

    He punished the Xi Xia for disobedience by hunting them down and removing them from existence.
  • 1227

    He dies. Genghis I mean, He dies.

    After suffering from injuries when falling off horse the year before. He dies in a camp while exterminating the Xi Xia. His son though, goes on and rules the mongol empire and builds it even more.
    Genghis left his mark because he united many nomadic, and unruly tribes, into a great nation that becomes modern Mongolia. He made a whole country.