...GENGHIS KHAN The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Genghis Khan was a visionary leader whose conquests joined backward Europe with the flourishing cultures of Asia to trigger a global awakening, an unprecedented explosion of technologies, trade, and ideas. Genghis Khan, who lived probably between 1162–1227, born Temüjin, was the founder, Khan (ruler) and Khagan (emperor) of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death. He was born in a Mongol tribe near Burkhan Khaldun mountain and the Onon and Kherlen Rivers in modern-day Mongolia, not far from the current capital Ulaanbaatar. The Secret History of the Mongols reports that Temüjin was born with a blood clot grasped in his fist, a traditional sign indicating that he was destined to become a great leader. He was the third-oldest son of his father Yesükhei, a minor tribal chief of the Kiyad and an ally of Ong Khan of the Kerait tribe and the oldest son of his mother Hoelun. He was called Temüjin because, in the Mongol culture, children were named after the leader of the last tribe to be defeated by the child’s father Childhood was short and difficult for the Mongols, and Temüjin learned how to ride horses when he was three, and hunt and fish before he turned six years old. The Mongols also had very...
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...Analysis of ‘Kubla Khan’ regarding Colonial Discourse: As a product of the complex discursive web of the 18th century, the Orientalist Coleridge could not act out of such historical forces as colonialism that had gone into shaping him and his poetry.He, in post colonial discourse, was unable to go parallel with the theory of ‘Arts for Arts sake’ and ‘Willing Suspension of Disbelief’. In Kubla Khan,Coleridge is trying to establish the heagemony of Abyssinian Christianity which according to him is more pure and can only be revived by colonizers by the song of Abyssinian maid. These lines make this idea more clear: Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such deep delight ‘twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome within the air! It is showing his hatred of corrupt religion of the East. His desire is to free mankind from political tyranny of tyrannical despots represented in the figure of Kubla. Although Kubla Khan was the conqueror and master of the world ... in Coleridge's view he was really no more than a passing historical representative cast up from the central 'Romantic chasm' . Kubla, a man of military skill and known for his administrative capabilities was called by the Mongols as Setsen Khan (The Wise Khan). He conquered China and established the Mongol dynasty, unifying the nation for the first time since the T'ang regime. Following the teachings of his mother, he tolerated all religions in the area, helping to win...
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...* Genghis Khan Siddhant Keshav * Genghis Khan was perhaps the greatest general ever to have lived. He was the founder, and ruler of the Mongol Empire – a nation much larger than the Roman Empire at its peak, in fact it was the largest and most continuous empire in history – spreading right through central Asia, parts of China, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. The empire he founded became the largest contiguous empire in history, after his demise, was about 12 million sq. miles. Brought the silk route under one cohesive political environment. Born Temujin around 1162 and about 0.5% of the world’s male population carries his DNA. * Temujin was born into a nomadic Mongol tribe in 1162. When Temujin was 12 years old, his father was killed and the family left to die in the harsh Mongolian winter. Temujin and his family survived, but the lessons he learned evolving from manhood at the age of 12 into the warrior known as Genghis Khan, are timeless. * Here are 10 leadership lessons that should be learnt from Genghis Khan * * Build Your Perseverance * * Build your perseverance, and it will produce 4 qualities: * commitment – a sense that you are giving your best * challenge – a sense that obstacles are challenges and not threats * control – a sense that you are in control of yourself and what happens to you * confidence – a sense that you can achieve your goals. * Build Your Mastery ...
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...The person I decided to pick as my leader is the person who united all of the nomadic tribes in the steppes of Mongolia into what would become the largest contiguous empire in history. Genghis Khan’s leadership style was a controversial and novel method for the time period. Before the Great Khan very few if any historical leaders based positions of power on merit instead of nobility or family connections. Genghis Khan’s leadership style closely resembles a paternalistic leadership style. This leadership style has the leader treating members of the team almost as his or her children. The leader then expects complete loyalty and dedication to whatever the leader deems as the next task to accomplish. Genghis Khan’s leadership style shares many aspects with this in the way he treated all of his subjects as family, as long as they submitted to him and remained loyal to the Mongol empire. Genghis Khan’s leadership style revolved almost entirely around a person’s ability and loyalty. In other words, the person who was the most capable was the person who received the position. Genghis Khan was so dedicated to this ideology that he would even shun his on family members and choose outsiders for high level positions, which was extremely uncommon during this time period. This shunning of family...
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...Kubla Khan Kubla Khan is one of the strangest, greatest and most ambiguous poems that I've ever read. This romantic poem is written by Coleridge, and through it, he shows the power of imagination that results in the importance of poetry as an art. The poem has the most significant romantic characteristics: nature, imagination and supernaturalism. The mother is everything for everyone, and nature, considered as the great mother by the romantics, is everything for Coleridge and other romantic poets. The poem takes place in nature in which Kubla Khan builds his dome of rock. The poet describes a wild nature showed by the sacred river that is measureless and sunless and the forests, the hills and the eternal spring. This beautiful nature is no more when it's touched by humans. When Kubla Khan ordered to build the dome, humans begin to corrupt every natural element there and to mix it with artificial one. When the natural place is distorted by humans, we find the poet describing the place as enchanted, and introducing a woman wailing for her demon-love. All these frightened scenes described in the poem have something to do with the corruption man causes to nature. Romantic poets would be nothing without imagination. Imagination is the power that distinguishes the romantic poets from others. The two kinds of imagination is found here in the poem. The primary imagination is the foundation on which the author based his poem. The action of Kubla Khan ordering people...
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..."Kubla Khan." All three were written between 1797 and 1800; however, was not published until 1816. At that time, Coleridge subtitled it "A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment," and added a prefatory note explaining the unusual origin of the poem. This preface describes how Coleridge, after taking some opium as medication, grew drowsy while reading a passage about the court of Kubla Khan in Samuel Purchas's , a seventeenth-century travel book recounting the adventures of early explorers. Soon he fell into a deep sleep which lasted about three hours. During this period, he composed from 200 to 300 lines of poetry based on the vivid images in his dream. When he woke, he remembered the entire poem and immediately began to write it down. Unfortunately, however, a visitor interrupted him, distracting him for about an hour. When Coleridge returned to his writing, the vivid images had fled, leaving him with only vague recollections and the fifty-four lines of this poetic fragment. Many critics challenge the truthfulness of Coleridge's version of this story, feeling that the poem is complete as it stands and much too carefully crafted to be solely the result of a dream. However, whether whole or fragment, dream or not, the poem examines issues of vital importance to Coleridge: creativity and the function of the imagination. The poem, including his prefatory comment, focuses on the process by which art is developed and how it may be lost or destroyed. When the poem begins, Kubla Khan orders...
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...DAILY LIFE IN CHINA - Gernet There are many references to Marco Polo’s visit to Hangchow and calling it “the finest and most splendid city in the world”. It was understandably the most advanced city in the world in the 13th century A.D. Marco Polo’s visit was thought to have started the silk trade, which was so valued by the Western world. I understand that fairly unrestricted commerce and trade contributed to its grand success. There is an important lesson here in economics, which aided in elevating the city to a thriving and important cultural status. The diversity of its peoples from other cultures, the influx of philosophers, poets, artists, musicians, free thinkers and foreign trades men made this truly a city that never sleeps. With the pouring in of wealth and the making of wealth, elevation of the middle and elite classes was assured. Much of that wealth was circulated back into the economy in the building of a canal which made trade easier and the erection of the first mult-storied buildings. Although there is much speculation that the peasants didn’t benefit as well, they were still a contributing factor in the creation of the City since they supplied most of the agricultural goods to make this capital a gastronomical center, which still to this day holds that honor. In all, my thoughts are that unrestricted trade, commerce and innovation are not only what made Hangchow great, but also made America one of the greatest countries in the world...
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...Instructor’s Name Course Date Genghis Khan as a Successful Military Leader and Intelligent Emperor In fact, Genghis Khan (1162-1227) established the giant Mongol empire just from a humble starting. As such, together with his descendants, he constructed the biggest historic empire that ran the whole of Asian landform from the Pacific Ocean to today’s Hungary within Europe. Astonishingly, his empire is invariably linked with the dreadful narratives of bloodshed, destruction, and conquest. Undeniably, such a kingdom could not have been created without enhanced organizational skills, a superb archers’ army, visionary leadership, the quickest and most resilient horse soldiers, the presence of politically destabilized nations across Asia, and, obviously,...
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...During the 13th century a small tribe known as the “barbarians” swept across Asia, Middle East, and Eastern Europe. They were known to be the negative and evil people throughout their civilizations. These people had little thoughts about farming due to them being nomadic and had always eaten meat. They were also known to be very destructive in their path. First off, Genghis Khan’s had violent ideas as one of them being, slaughtering the streets of Chinese capital with human flesh everywhere. A little history about Genghis Khan is that he never had the easiest childhood. He spent most of his teenage years fighting clan rivals since his father was poisoned by a rival. Genghis had won the leadership in 1206 while aspirations began to grow...
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...Genghis Khan Genghis Khan was originally born with the name Temujin. He was born in North Central Mongolia around 1162. According to Mongol folktales, Genghis Khan was born with a blood clot in his hand, a sign in Mongol folklore that he was destined to become a strong leader. Some of you may be wondering - who was Genghis Khan, and what were some of his accomplishments? As a child he killed his step brother for hoarding food while the tribe starved. He later became the leader of the Mongol Horde during the middle ages and conquered close to 12 million contiguous square miles in a short time frame. As a leader he promoted people based on merit, not social class and was a decisive leader. Genghis Khan conquered more land in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. The empire he built stretched from Mongolia to the Caspian Sea. One of the reasons he was able to accomplish this is that he destroyed traditional divisions among the Mongol tribes and united the tribes under his rule. When he united rival Mongol tribes, the tribal leaders agreed to peace and bestowed on Temujin the title of "Genghis...
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...Genghis Khan was born “Temujin” in 1162, in north central Mongolia. He was born with a blood clot in his hand, a sign in mongolian folklore that he would be a leader. He was born into the borjigin tribe. Temujin married at age 16, but he had multiple wives throughout his life. He had a short life with his family, as when he was 9 he was taken by his father to live with his future bride. Around the same age, he was poisoned by a rival tribe, the tatars. When his father died, he returned to his tribe to take over, but the clan rejected his leadership, and rejected he and his family to a refugee status. He then killed his half brother to confirm his position at the head of the family. At the age of 20, he was captured and temporarily enslaved by his former allies, the faichiats. He then escaped and returned to build a fighting unit with his brother and seven other men....
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...Genghis Khan was the founder of the Mongol Empire in 1206. The Mongols was a tribe that spread through China. As Genghis came to power he was able to improved writing and brought religion to the new empire. He had one of the greatest armies which help with their invasion including Europe and Asia. After the death of Genghis Khan, the slit up the empire between his sons and they continued his legacy. The Mongols had a lot of legacies in the Islamic world. A couple of their legacies including the victory in Khwarezm, the stability of the Silk Road and incredible army. Without his army, he would have been able to do as much as he did. The idea of them fighting on horses made it easier for them to go fight and win so much territory. There were...
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...Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great rose to power in different ways, but they both built monstrous and strong empires, defeated great armies, and expanded trade routes. Though Genghis Khan ruled many years after Alexander the Great, many similarities can be found between the two leaders. Throughout their rises to the top, they both conquered many lands. Their empires covered territory greatly across both the North-Western and North-Eastern hemispheres. In order for them to have gained all their land, they had to outsmart the strongest forces, both Alexander and Khan were able to. During their reigns, they both extended upon the already created trade routes. Though Alexander and Khan are not commonly looked upon to be similar, there are more aspects alike with them than different....
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...Genghis Khan Research Paper Genghis Khan…Temujin…Chinggis Khan…Conqueror of the world. These are just some of the names given to the emperor who showed both terror and tolerance to his enemies. Not just conquering land, but creating things that have never been heard off such as a lLegal code make Genghis so unique. This fearless Mongol leader made a huge impact during his reign making his empire so unique for his time. To begin with, Genghis Khan was a very innovative leader, he created many things, for example a Llegal code. “Chinggis…left behind a legal code, the so-called Jasagh, which consisted of a series of general moral injunctions and laws” (“Chinggis Khan’s Four Great Legacies”). This was used during his reign as a...
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...Temujin later on know as Genghis Khan was born in 1162 he became a brilliant general and a strong leader by the time he was in his twenties. He made the biggest land empire in history and by 1206 he had 10,000 soldiers in his army. In his life he conquered parts of Asia and China. When he pasted in 1227 his descendants expanded the empire even further, conquering places such as Poland, Vietnam, Syria and Korea. He was one of the best individuals in history so far. Temujin was born in Deluun Boldog in 1162. He grew up on the harsh cold plains of Mongolia. His father, Yesugai, was the khan (like a chief) of the tribe. His mother was kidnaped by his father and she was forced into marriage. Temujin was the eldest of five sons. Temujin enjoyed his childhood even though it was tough sometimes, he rode horses and hunted with his brothers from a young age. Temujin was given his name ‘Temujin’ at the time of his birth, his name meant “finest steel”. When Temujin was nine years old he was sent to live with his wives tribe called Onggirat. His wife's name was Borte. A year later (just before he turned ten) with his wives tribe...
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