"My greatest good fortune was to chase and defeat my enemies, conquer his lands and people, and share his riches."

In this paper, I will examine how a man like Genghis Khan, one clearly of humble beginnings, could strike fear in the hearts of thousands and defeat entire villages, leaving only ruins, as in the case of Xi Xia, 'and eventually built the largest kingdom the world has every known. How this man instilled great fear and terror among many Asians, yet his methods of torture were a sign of his times.'

Genghis Khan was the leader of one of the world's greatest empires, the Mongol Empire. Genghis Khan united rival tribes in Asia, creating a great nation that stretched from the Aral Sea, to the Yellow Sea of China. * In plain, he united people of different cultures, which created the China we know today. Genghis Khan also inspired others, and after his death, his followers went on, using his battle tactics to gain more land

This man was the link between the advantages of the nomadic Mongols and the more advanced Chinese. A great friendship was created between Genghis Khan and this amazing man, and soon Genghis appointed him as his 'right hand'. This man soon became like a mentor for Genghis.

"Within a year, the Shah assembled an army of about 400,000 men to meet the approaching Mongols. Genghis Khan, riding at the head of 90,000 warriors and a corps of Chinese artillerymen with his chief of staff, General Subedei, entered Khwarezm from the north. General Jebe, commanding a force of some 30,000 men crossed the lofty peaks of the Pamir Range and entered the Shah's domain from the east. Slashing their way across the Shah's empire, Mongol armies overwhelmed villages, towns and cities, leaving a wide swath of devastation in their wake. During the main battle with the Khwarezm army, from which the Shah barely escaped with his life, the Mongols killed some 180,000 soldiers. Samrkand and Bukhara, two of the great gleaming cities in Shah Sultan Mohammed's crown fell to the Mongols in 1220"

At the age of 14, Temujin married a girl from his village, but a neighboring clan later kidnapped her. He did, however, rescue his wife, and this, once again, had a great influence on his personality.

When Temujin was nine years old, his father was poisoned after robbing a rival tribe, the Tatars. The family was rejected out of society, and they lived alone, fishing, gathering berries and onions and hunting small rodents to survive. As a child, his older half-brother, Bekhter, who stole Temujin's biggest catch when the boys went fishing or hunting, often tormented Temujin. When Temujin grew older, he killed his hal

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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)