Liaquat Ali Khan

nature of Kubla Khan almost bounds its creative sovereignty to something unattainable to the reader. On the one hand, Coleridge offers the reader a psychedelic insight into the unknown mysterious “chasm” of his creativity and gives the reader a sense of the limitless utopia in his mind. On the other hand, this distorted experience presents a fabrication of reality, where the freedom of imagination exceeds the limits of the natural poet. Arguably the false pretence of Coleridge’s Kubla Khan is…

The Life and Legacy of Genghis Khan Every civilization that had been found and developed, soon after they rose, would fall. But then a new one would rise not too far from there or become a whole new one out of the old rubble. Usually this was due to new settlers, an economic rise, or influences from other civilizations. Each civilization had a powerful figure, such as Alexander the Great from Macedonia or Julius Caesar in Rome. In the eastern parts of Asia, there are generals such as Cao Cao…

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World tells the history of a nomadic country that came from nearly nothing and became the World 's greatest empire, but quickly fell apart because of greed. It united under Genghis Khan or Temujin as he was originally known as, and he was born to Hoelun, the bride kidnapped from Chiledu of the Merkid tribe by the Mongols. Temujin 's childhood was traumatic and stressful as his father was poisoned when Temujin was still a child. With the loss of their…

From AD 1000 to AD 1600, China was united under the Song dynasty. The Song dynasty began in 960 and persisted until 1279. During this era, China became the first government in world history to nationally issue banknotes and was the first government in China to establish a permanent-standing navy. The Song dynasty is divided into two distinct periods, Northern and Southern. Following the Song dynasty was the Yuan dynasty, also known as the Great Yuan. This dynasty lasted from 1271 to 1368 and was…

each piece separately, and as a whole. In the discussion between Polo and the Khan it is possible for the reader to glean a few significant thoughts. Still the cities add a richness and depth to the dialogue, filling up the mental image with specific images that fill the background, putting the points that could be initially and easily overlooked into the foreground and highlighting them. Each attempt made by the Khan to place each destination into a category in which he felt it fit a certain…

religion, and his desire to visit all of the major religious sites and meet important religious leaders. He traveled a total of 75,000 miles over the course of 29 years. Marco Polo was an Italian traveler who claims to have met and become close to Kublai Khan, and began traveling on his behalf. He returned home to Italy 24 years after he left. Ibn Battuta visited a place called Zafari, and talked about his positive experience at a hospice in the city. “I went out to this hospice and spent a…

regions (Document 9). This accomplishment allowed the Mongols to control nearly all significant trade in the known world, especially trade on the Silk Road, emphasizing the power they had in the world economy. Marco Polo also wrote that the powerful khan forced everyone under his control to use paper money in their unique economic system (Document 6). This also shows how the Mongols had control of the flow of currency in their empire. Polo, an Italian merchant concerned with money, spent quite…

The Mongols and the Europeans had many characteristics that were similar and characteristics that set them apart. They both had strong attributes that set them apart from any other group of people; they were powerful in their own way. It was the Mongols during the third wave civilizations era that created the largest and influential empire of that millennium. Their empire reached all the way to Eastern Europe and it was the Mongols that brought regions together into a single interacting network.…

Mongol’s religion consisted of praying to a sky god that ruled over nature deities. The above changed under the leadership of Timuchin, who was the son of a poor noble in one of the tribes. He unified the tribes and after doing so was elected Genghis Khan, or “Universal Ruler”. Timuchin expanded the land Mongolians inhabited by conquering large armies with his smaller army of one hundred and twenty thousand men. As a result, the Mongolian Empire has become one of the largest empires in human…

reaching Japan. The word Kamikaze has an ancient origin. Literally translated it means “divine wind.” Kamikaze was used for close to a thousand years to refer to the two storms that saved the Japanese mainland from the fleets of the emperor Kublai Khan. Kublai Khan attempted two amphibious attacks on the Japanese in the years of 1274 and 1281. Legend has it that the Japanese Emperor himself prayed…