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Conquest of the Mongolia Empire
1206 - 1227

Genghis Khan's Conquest of the Mongolia Empire 1206 - 1227
 
The most astonishing aspect of Genghis Khan achievement is that the entire Mongol tribe under him numbered around a million.
From this million, he recruited his army of no more than 100.000 warriors.
In 1210, the forty-eight year of Genghis Khan and the fourth year of his new nation, a delegation arrived at the Mongol encampment to proclaim the ascension of a new Golden Khan from Zhondgu - where modern Beijing now rises - and the submission of Genghis Khan and the Mongol vassal nation.
The success of Genghis Khan of uniting all the tribes had the inadvertent consequences of ending the looting and thereby stifling the flow of goods. Since all manufactured goods originated in the south, Genghis Khan could either offer allegiance to one of the southern ruler ad receive goods as a vassal warrior or he could attack them an seize the goods.
In 1211, Genghis Khan summoned a Khuriltai, after 4 days, the verdict was "The Eternal Blue Sky has promised us victory and vengeance."
No one, not even Genghis Khan, could have seen what was coming. He showed no sign of any global ambitions. He fought one war at a time. But starting from the Campaign, the well-trained and tightly organized Mongol army would charge out of its highland and overrun everything from the Indus River to the Danube, from the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. In a flash, only 30 years, the Mongol warriors would defeat every army, capture every fort, and bring down the walls of every city they encountered. Christian, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus would son kneel before the dusty boots of illiterate young Mongol horsemen.
In 25 years, the Mongol army subjugated more land and people than the Romans had conquered in 400 years.
With his sons and grandsons, he conquered the most densely populated civilizations of the XIII Century.
Genghis khan  conquered more than twice as much as any other man in history !!!
At its zenith, the empire covered a contiguous area about the size of Africa - Considerably larger than Canada, USA and Mexico and Central America.
Genghis Khan taught his people not only to fight across incredible distances but to sustain their campaign over years and decades.
It stretches from the snowy Siberia to the hot plains of India, from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the wheat field of Hungary, and from Korea to the Balkans.
On the modern map, Genghis Khan conquered 30 countries where today, well over 3 billion people live.
Genghis Khan recognize that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals, it was a total commitment of one people against another. Victory did not come to one who played by the rules, it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy. Triumph could not be partial. It was complete, total, and undeniable or it was nothing. In battle this meant the unbridled use of terror and surprise. Resistance would be met with death, loyalty with security.
Genghis Khan left his empire with such a firm foundation that it continued growing for another 150 years. His descendant continued to rule from Russia, Turkey and India to China and Persia.
The Mongols made no technological breakthroughs, founded no new religions, wrote few books and gave the world no new crops or method of agriculture.
The Mongols brought German miners to China and  Chinese doctors to Persia. They transplanted lemons and carrots from Persia to China as well as noodles, playing cards and tea from China to the West. They brought metal workers from Paris to build a fountain on the dry steppes of Mongolia, recruited an English nobleman to serve as interpreter their army, and took the practice of finger printing to Persia.
When highly skilled engineers from China, Persia and Europe combined Chinese gunpowder with Muslim flamethrower and applied European bell-casting technology they produced the cannon.
Mongols sought no merely to conquer the world, but to institute a global order based on free trade, a single international law, and a universal alphabet with which to write all languages.
Genghis Khan grand son, khubilai introduced a paper currency intended for use everywhere and attempted to create primary schools for universal basic education of all children in order to make everyone literate.
The Mongols refined and combined  calendars to create a ten thousand year calendar more accurate than any previous one and they sponsored the most extensive maps ever assembled.
In the end, Europe suffered the least yet acquired all the advantages of contact through merchants such as the Polo family of Venice.
The new technology, knowledge and commercial wealth created the Renaissance in which Europe rediscovered some of its prior culture, but, more importantly, absorbed the technology for printing, firearms and the compass.
Every aspect of European life - technology, warfare, clothing, commerce, food, art, literature and music - changed during the Renaissance as a result of the Mongol influence.
History has condemned most conquerors to miserable untimely death.
At the age of 37, Alexander the Great died in Babylon while his followers killed off his family.
Julius Caesar's fellow aristocrats and former allies stabbed him to death in the chamber of senate.
Napoleon faced death as a solitary prisoner on one of the most remote and inaccessible island in the planet
in 1227, the nearly 70 years old Genghis Khan, however, passed away in his camp bed surrounded by a loving family, faithful friends and loyal soldiers ready to risk their life at his command.
In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being  created by a group of educated merchants or wealthy planters had been founded by one of its illiterate slaves, who, by the sheer force of personality, charisma, and determination liberated America from foreign rule, united the people,  created an alphabet, wrote the constitution, established universal religious freedom, invented a new system of warfare, marched an army from Canada to Brazil and opened roads of commerce in a free-trade zone that stretched across the continents