Genghis Khan - Proud Son of the Heaven for His Time
Genghis Khan (1162-1227), born Temujin, came from a Mongolian
noble family. He was born in the era when various nobles of the
Mongolian plateau were fighting fiercely for assets and slaves.
When Temujin was nine years old, his father Yesugai was poisoned by
enemies and died. In extremely hard conditions, Temujin suffered
humiliation and invigorated his family. In 1189, 28-year-old
Temujin was chosen as the leader of Qiyanshi Noble League of Inner
Mongolia and proclaimed himself Khan. He then unified all the
nations of the plateau by destroying his enemies one by one with
great wisdom and braveness in more ten years of war. In 1206, when
Temujin was 34 years old, he ascended to the throne of Khan with
the title of Genghis and established the Grand Mongolian
Kingdom.
After Genghis Khan ascended to the throne, he reformed the old
systems and unified the various tribes under the feudal military
empire -- the Grand Mongolian Kingdom -- and started to form a
common Mongolian nation. He became the hero of the Mongolian
nation.
After the Grand Mongolian Kingdom was established, he devoted
himself to a continuous war of conquest. With great strategy and
foresight, he took advantages of the contradictions of various
kingdoms on the central plain, destroyed the Song Dynasty and Jin
Kingdom, ended the division that had long existed since the
rebellion of An Lushan and Shi Siming in the Tang Dynasty and laid
the foundations for the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty and the
unification of the whole country.
