Genghis Khan Research Paper

Who really was Genghis Khan? Was he just an emperor of Mongolia who didn 't deserve his spot, was he the first person to come close to world domination, or was he just a man trying to enjoy his life? One may think that Genghis Khan was a brutal murderer who cared about nothing but his empire but many don 't see that he was a ruler its his job to be vicious and take care of his empire and expand even if it means killing 11% of the world population or 40 million people. Many also don 't know about his rough childhood with his father being poisoned and his family being banished and many other hard things that occurred to him. And even though Genghis Khan ruled by fear instead of respect, he was able to take over most of Eurasia by uniting nomadic …show more content…
After uniting them he gave them the ability to join him or die which many choose to join him. Even though this may sound like a bad guy thing to do he did give them a lot of benefits of joining him some of which are expression of free religion, poor were exempted from taxes, and he would promise safety to all. But with making promises like that he would be have to be able to keep that promise up by having the military power and the weapons to defend them with. So how will one protect his people from attackers? The first thing they used to defend themselves and attack others is not truly a weapon in itself but more of a helper in battle which was the use of horses and are said to be the useful weapon of the army as they could use it to get to places in quicker, and to ride into battle and attack their enemies. Also being given a horse is an important part of becoming a man and a soldier in mongolian tradition since once they reached the age of fourteen and fifteen and they would be given 4-7 horses so they could switch from one to another in between battles. Another weapon who they used and was a very