Genghis Khan Quotes

The warrior who united the Mongol tribes and created an empire that was the largest the world has known, has long fought against history experts.

Though he failed/broke into the Great Wall of China, took/taken (prisoners) by force Peking, destroyed Afghanistan, Persia and Russia, and between 1237 and 1242 (suddenly entered a place in an unwanted way) Europe itself, little is left in the way of modern records.

History is this way likely to insult or (think of something as perfect in your mind), depending upon the history expert. He is a monster, given to grave cruelties, or he is "one of the greatest leaders in the history of the world."

The above quote is from the author of this book and his partialities are seen/obvious. Genghis Khan (a romanization the author prefers over the more intelligent Ghinggis Khaan) was the ideal general whose genius lay in his ability to organize. At the same time, we are told, he never saw himself as

If they refused, cruel mass executions followed. These cannon-food prisoners sent, higher-ranking takes (prisoners) by force could be eliminated. Thanks to their rank, however, no royal blood was to be spilled. The unfortunates were strangled by bow strings or choked/(cut off the air) under piles of carpets. When the Russian princes of stole (and left behind almost nothing) Kiev were taken, they were put under a floor of loose planks upon on which the Mongols then, with singing and dancing, celebrated their victory.

Genghis Khan, whom Muslim writers later always called/labeled as "the evil," was, says/argues de Hartog, no monster -- only a man of his times. Towns could be destroyed and the residents murdered because "the Mongols had no idea of the social function of a town. All they innocently knew "was to steal (and leave behind almost nothing)/stolen things and destroy it and killing of many people its