Part one of term paper
During the late 1100’s and early 1200’s one man brought all of the nomadic tribes of Mongolia under his rule and through his many conquests, built an empire that was more extensive than that of Alexander the Great. This man was known as (also spelled Chingis) and his armies were among the most feared in the history of warfare. By the t ...

Part two of term paper
... his mother, Hoelun, and his father, Yesugei, who was the chief of a small Mongolian tribe. Genghis was originally given the name of Temujin, after a leader of another tribe who was defeated by his father. However, when Temujin was still young his father was poisoned by members of an enemy tribe and died. Temujin inherited his father’s position, but the rest of his tribe did not accept their new leader and abandoned a teenaged Temujin and his family. For a short time the family lived in povert ...