From to , the outnumbered Mongols ravaged the countryside and sent refugees pouring into the cities. Food shortages became a problem, and the Jin army ended up killing tens of thousands of its own peasants.
In the Mongols besieged the capital of Zhongdu now Beijing , and the Jin ruler agreed to hand over large amounts of silk, silver, gold and horses. When the Jin ruler subsequently moved his court south to the city of Kaifeng, Genghis Khan took this as a breach of their agreement and, with the help of Jin deserters, sacked Zhongdu to the ground.
The sultan there had agreed to a trade treaty, but when the first caravan arrived its goods were stolen and its merchants were killed. Despite once again being outnumbered, the Mongol horde swept through one Khwarezm city after another, including Bukhara, Samarkand and Urgench. Skilled workers such as carpenters and jewelers were usually saved, while aristocrats and resisting soldiers were killed. Unskilled workers, meanwhile, were often used as human shields during the next assault. In early a horse threw Genghis Khan to the ground, causing internal injuries.
He pressed on with the campaign, but his health never recovered. He died on August 18, , just before the Xi Xia were crushed. Genghis Khan conquered more than twice as much land as any other person in history, bringing Eastern and Western civilizations into contact in the process.
His descendants, including Ogodei and Khubilai, were also prolific conquerors, taking control of Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the rest of China, among other places. The Mongols even invaded Japan and Java before their empire broke apart in the 14th century.
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The issues considered concern art, governance, diplomacy, commerce, court life, and urban culture in the Mongol world empire as originally presented at a symposium at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and now distilled in this volume. He had great physical strength, tenacity of purpose, and an unbreakable will. Possible immediate and long term influences are presented in a logical and unromantic way, I recommend this well presented book.
These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads. Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan was a great Mongol warrior of the 12th century. He was the leader of the Mongol Empire, which went on to become one of the largest empires in the world after he died.
He was able to create the empire by defeating smaller nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia. Opening this weekend! The Life and Legacy of Genghis Khan. Culture and commerce in the Mongol World Empire. Listen to live performances of Mongolian music. Mongolia is a country in transition as traditional ways intersect with the modern trappings of life in the 21st century.
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Being friendless in the cut-throat world of 13th-century Mongolia was not a good place to be. The young Temujin came to the realisation that his best chance of reversing his fortunes — and creating a powerbase for himself — lay in establishing alliances. Yet on the violent, febrile Mongolian steppe, even getting married could spell trouble. So he sought to secure another alliance, this time with a formidable leader named Toghrul. Temujin won over Toghrul by reminding him that he had fought alongside his father, and sugar-coated the offer with a lavish sable coat.
The gambit worked. Someone, however, stood in his way, and it was one of his greatest friends. Temujin had been blood brothers with a fellow warrior named Jamukha, also the son of a Mongolian tribal leader, for a number of years.
In fact, Jamukha had played an instrumental role in the defeat of the Merkit. Yet, as the two had grown older, cracks began to appear in their friendship. Soon, his distrust morphed into outright war. When Jamukha struck, it was with bloodthirsty ferocity.
He was good to his word, and when his revenge came, it was total. Then a few months later, Jamukha was captured. Rather than dish out a fate similar to what befell his generals, though, Temujin showed him mercy… up to a point. Jamukha asked for a noble death, which meant without the shedding of blood. His former friend granted him that, so had his back broken.
Among the first people to feel the force of the newly united Mongol nation was the Western Xia of northwest China, who succumbed to a sustained Mongol invasion. In , Genghis followed that by attacking the Jin, gobbling up land, cities and loot in a spectacular campaign that culminated in the fall of Beijing. The Mongolians were highly adept at communicating over large distances, something they had honed over centuries of rounding up animals on the steppe.
This enabled them to slowly tighten the noose around the enemy. Guile was another key weapon in the Mongol armoury. Genghis Khan relied heavily on spies and was certainly not above using fake news as a tactic. Genghis Khan was also a master of the feigned retreat, luring opponents out of defensive positions before delivering a lethal strike. Combine all this with his ability to quickly assimilate new technologies into his own army — such as Chinese siege weapons, mortars, gunpowder, not to mention thousands of captured troops — and you had a truly formidable foe.
And then, of course, there was terror. Cities that put up a fight were routinely subjected to an orgy of destruction: their men butchered, women raped and buildings razed. Yet in terms of sheer barbarity, the worst was yet to come. Having subdued the Western Xia and Jin to the east, Genghis Khan looked to establish trade links to his west.
He sent emissaries into the Khwarezmid Empire modern-day Afghanistan and Iraq. Let us conclude a firm treaty of friendship and peace.
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