10 amazing facts about the great conqueror Genghis Khan Bashny.Net

The glory of the conqueror goes just like that. Genghis Khan was not just cruel, very cruel man. For 30 years the Mongol Horde led by Genghis Khan took place across Asia, killing one-tenth of all people on Earth and winning almost a quarter of the earth. His reign was the most brutal in all of human history.

Some of the actions of Genghis Khan and today are considered one of the most brutal among all the rulers on Earth. The website talks about ten of them.

Genghis Khan killed his brother for food

Photo source: Kulturologia.vikingish was born in the family of an influential tribal leader Yesugei, but the situation of the boy in society changed when his father was poisoned by an enemy tribe. His family was expelled from the house, and they were forced to seek livelihoods.

When Genghis Khan was 14, he caught a big fish and brought it to her family. But his half-brother Bekter tore a fish from his hands and ate it himself, refusing to share with anyone. Enraged Genghis Khan chased the brother as long as shot from a bow. The first murder not descended from the Genghis Khan from hands: the mother severely scolded him.

Genghis Khan beheaded people taller than 90 centimeters



When Genghis Khan was 20 years old, he led the campaign against the tribe that killed his father and revenge. Tatar army was defeated, and Genghis Khan began the extermination of people is incredibly unusual way. Each Tartar was placed next to the cart and measured his height compared to the wheel axle (which was at 90 centimeters). Everyone who was above her head. In fact, spared only the children.

Piles of bones of his victims was confused with mountains



In 1211 Genghis Khan turned his eyes to modern China and attacked the Jin Empire. It seemed like a rash decision: the Jin Empire lived 53 million people, and the Mongols were just one million. However, Genghis Khan won. Within three years, the Mongols reached the walls is an Easy (now Beijing). The city walls were 12 meters high and stretched for 29 miles around the entire city. As take their attack was not possible, the Mongols decided to besiege the city and take it down.

By the summer of 1215 the city began to rampant cannibalism and in the end, an Easy surrender. The Mongols sacked and burned the city, massacring all the inhabitants. A few months later, an eyewitness wrote that "from the bones of the dead have formed these white mountains, and the ground was greasy from human fat".

Genghis Khan did to captain Archer who shot him



During the war with the Mongolian clan Tikigod the horse of Genghis Khan was struck by an arrow, killing the animal on the spot. Fallen horse crushing him, but he was able to escape. The army of Genghis Khan won the battle, and he demanded to line up in front of him all the captives and asked who fired that arrow.

Suddenly, he came forward Archer Jeb, who admitted that he shot and wanted to kill Genghis Khan. The military was so impressed with the bravery of the jab that made him a commander in his army (later Jeb became a General and one of the most loyal friends of Genghis Khan).

Genghis Khan gave his daughters in marriage for the allies



One of the ways to capture the power of Genghis Khan was the marriage of their daughters to the rulers of the allies. When such a marriage was, it actually meant a death sentence for these rulers. First, for the privilege to marry one of the daughters of Genghis Khan, they had to expel all of his other wives. Monogamy had nothing to do with it: Genghis Khan just had to make sure his daughter was the only one in line for the throne.

Then rulers, was sent to fight at the head of the army, and almost every one of them was immediately killed in battle. By the time Chinggis Khan's death, his daughter ruled the area stretching from the Chinese Yellow sea to the Iranian Caspian sea.

Genghis Khan destroyed 1.7 million people, in revenge for one



The marriages of his daughters may have been strategic alliances, but this does not mean that the unions were deprived of romance. One of the daughters of Genghis Khan was very fond of her husband named Toucher. Genghis Khan himself had treated him as adopted son and loved him very much. When Toxocara killed the Archer from Nishapur, his wife demanded vengeance.

The army of Genghis Khan attacked Nishapur and massacred all in their path, including women, children and animals. According to some estimates, were killed 1 748 000 people. Then all the fallen decapitated, and their skulls were stacked in a pyramid at the request of the daughter of Genghis Khan.

The Mongols celebrated the victory at the Russian nobility



In 1223, when the Mongol army was marching through Kievan Rus, she won the battle on the river Kalka. To celebrate the victory, the Mongols decided very peculiar way. The commanders of the army of Kievan Rus and know was made to lie on the ground, after which they placed a heavy wooden gate, which established the chairs and tables. After the victory, literally, on the bodies of their enemies, the Mongols crushed them to death during the feast.

Genghis Khan let the river in a new direction



When Genghis Khan opened the Muslim Kingdom of Khwarezm, he did something unusual: he tried to establish peaceful relations. The group of diplomats was sent to the city, hoping to establish a trade route and establish diplomatic ties. The ruler of Khorezm, however, did not believe them. He felt that the diplomats are part of the Mongolian conspiracy and executed them. He also killed and the next group, which sent the Mongols to negotiate. Genghis Khan was furious. He tried to establish peaceful relations, and in response received the dead diplomats.

In the end, the army of 200,000 Mongols attacked and destroyed Khorezm. Even after the victory, Genghis Khan sent two armies to burn every castle, town and farm in this region and make sure that the slightest hint of a cone does not remain in history. According to legend, he even let the river in a new direction that it flowed through the place where was born the Emperor of Khorezm.

Genghis Khan had destroyed the Tangut state



When Genghis Khan invaded Khwarezm he asked previously conquered the Kingdom of XI Xia (Tangut state) to send troops to his aid. The Tanguts had refused to do this, which is much regretted. Mongolian army went through the Xia, destroying everything in its path. Cut out all the people, and by the end of this campaign of XI-Xia was erased from the face of the Earth.

Because the Tanguts did not write their own history, their state can be judged only on records from neighboring countries. Their language remained dead for more than 700 years. Only in the mid-20th century archaeologists excavated the stones on which was the inscription in Tangut.

All the people who participated in the burial of Genghis Khan, were killed



When Genghis Khan died, according to the will of the great ruler had to be buried where no one could find his remains. To fulfill his desire, slaves and soldiers took the body for many kilometers into the desert. To ensure that slaves will never disclose the place of burial, the soldiers killed them and threw the bodies into a mass grave.

Then the soldiers during the day, rode horses over the grave to conceal all the traces and put it over the trees. When the soldiers who participated in the funeral procession returned to the camp, they were immediately killed.

The grave of Genghis Khan have not found until now.

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