Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World Analysis

In the story, “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, Jack Weatherford successfully portrays the life of a boy that started off with so little and transformed into the most feared and powerful leader of the Mongols and a majority of the world. He started off with a small clan that included his family, friends, and outcasts that he would encounter on his journey living as a nomadic person. Years later, his small clan would increase as he befriended small leaders and began to conqueror enemy tribes and clans. Then he will eventually move on to conquer larger territory such as the Chinese Dynasties. While conquering each territory, he would pick up on different battle tactics and engineering methods that would aid him to move faster across the world than any other successful empire. Also, he will develop a …show more content…
Here, Temujin struggled with family ties, and discovered his future occupation as leader. The discovery occurred after Temujin’s father died from being poisoned by the Tartar clan heading back from finding Temujin’s wife. After his father’s death, here was the question of who would be the next in line for power. Temujin’s half-brother, the eldest of the family, named, Begert, claimed the power and Temujin was not satisfied with the arrangement because he didn’t want Begert controlling him or marrying his mother when Begert became of appropriate age. As a result, he decides to kill Begert with the help of his brother, Khasar, when they went out hunting one day. Weatherford said, “In order to achieve this primacy of place, he proved himself willing to violet custom, defy his mother, and kill whoever blocked his path, even if it was his own family member” (Weatherford 25). This one act of violence in his life, of many, that he organized cleverly gave him the idea that he would surely become a future leader rather than a