Genghis Khan, born in approximately 1162, became the Conqueror of the largest contiguous empire in history.
Genghis Khan, it was a new title that he just thought up, or somebody thought up, or somebody thought it had auspicious meaning behind it,
Genghis Khan issued standard issue all of his soldiers with an undershirt made of thickly, tightly woven silk.
of Genghis Khan, but it's gonna continue on with the feuds and the issues caused by it, all the way into the future,
to Genghis Khan. So who was Jamukha?
And Genghis Khan does reward them immediately, he kills them all, because they have betrayed their leader,
At Gengie's house. And I got to audition for con man number two or something.
- The story of Genghis Khan, like the story I think of all of us, it doesn't begin at birth, that's the beginning of life.
- You mentioned that Genghis Khan's childhood,
And so I think Genghis, it doesn't have one meaning, I think it means powerful, it means the sea, I think it means many different things.
But when Genghis Khan attacks the Naiman, Jamukha deserts the Naiman.
it's now Genghis Khan, they'll take him, and they'll be rewarded perhaps for turning him in.
And so supposedly Genghis Khan says to him, "Come back to me, save me, be beside me,
But they said that Genghis Khan was extremely effective at getting to his objectives.
But you expected Genghis Khan to do that.
That was what Genghis Khan did for a living.
That was the moment that Genghis Khan's mother and father met.
It was very common in Mongolia before Genghis Khan to steal people's wives.
And I talk about the story of Genghis Khan, who set up one of the biggest empires in history.
Came to Konya because of Genghis Khan, and his massacres in Afghanistan and the Muslim East at the time.
Baseball has been around like-- Genghis Khan was playing baseball 1,000 years ago.
if you're going out as Genghis Khan to conquer the continent and you've got the whole continent in front of you.
And they said people think that Genghis Khan was a tyrant.
Later, Genghis Khan will realize, once he becomes Genghis Khan, he will realize that the true source of most of the feuding on the steppe is over women.
So I did a lot of research from Genghis Khan to like the 30 Years' War.
So they said that they named it after Genghis Khan.
And so their perspective was that there's no point for Genghis Khan to try to be like Gandhi, because he'd
That was far more than were killed by Genghis Khan.
if you could point to one place, where Genghis Khan, the conqueror was created, it's that point.
500 soldiers from the real Mongolian Army get dressed up like the soldiers from Genghis
arrows and spears, you can see what Genghis Khan at one time, when he was 27-- 27, he owned from Beijing, he ruled from Beijing all the way over to Europe-- this is amazing
helmet in Photoshop. And then I mentioned that Genghis Khan was 27 years old when he owned from Beijing, when he ruled Beijing over to all Europe. I figured, hey, I'm there.
history, the Mongols, Genghis Khan was famous for this meritocracy.
He has written a legendary book on his topic, titled "Genghis Khan and The Making of the Modern World." And he has written many other books,
- You have to tell the story of Jamukha, 'cause the story of Genghis Khan is one of people abandoning him, being disloyal,
and as you've described, he's both the best thing to has happened to Genghis Khan, and one of the biggest challenges in the later years,
Don't ask me why, but I've been doing a lot of research on Genghis Khan, and the Aztecs, so there's a lot of violence there in that history,
And you will see famous people related to my father, like Genghis Khan.
So I come from a very aristocratic family, between Genghis Khan and Marie Antoinette.
side consequence of their actions, or did they understand and use it? Like the Mongols, Genghis Khan, the Mongols used the fear and the
- The following is a conversation with Jack Weatherford, anthropologist and historian, specializing in Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire.
including "Emperor of the Seas, Kublai Khan and The Making of China", "Genghis Khan and the Quest for God", "The Secret History of the Mongol Queens",
The story begins long before birth, and sometimes it can be many generations before, and sometimes only shortly before, but I think with Genghis Khan,
So what happened was a man named Yesugei, Yesugei, the future father of Genghis Khan, Yesugei was up on a hill, he was hunting with his falcon,
- Yes. - From Borte to Temujin, and Temujin to Borte, and this is like before he was Genghis Khan.
So he takes over Central Mongolia, he's starting to really rise up now, and he has the title from his own people of Genghis Khan.
So if it has different meaning in different languages, so in the Mongolian it sounds like strong Gen, Genghis, but in the Turkic, and there are many Turkic people,
but his own people turn against him, and they capture him, and they think they will take him to Genghis Khan,
So if you just have two tribes, one, I've been reading a lot about Genghis Khan, and this is why Genghis Khan banned this.
I was 57 when I was there. I'll try to take over Mongolia. Well, I got dressed up like Genghis Khan, but it didn't work. And as Cliff had noticed there, I was showing him the pictures