Genghis Khan Megalomaniac

Minnie Mouse

Mrs. Williams

Honors English 8C

13 March 2023

Genghis Khan; Megalomaniac

When people learn that Genghis Khan killed his brother, they automatically think of him as a villain. And many people do see him as a villain. Most of the people in China hold him with mixed views. He is known for creating the Yuan Dynasty, which united most of China under one rule (TheFamousPeople). Yet, people find it hard to push aside the fact that he not only killed his own family members, but also killed over 40 million people during his reign (Bocco). He had no morals when it came to his own wishful desires to get to the top. If one person didn’t surrender to his rule, then he would have them eliminated. This is why many people consider Genghis

Raised by his mother and along with his three full blood siblings and two half siblings, he spent most of his days hunting and gathering food with his family (TheFamousPeople). Due to his childhood poverty, he grew up with a great desire to obtain wealth, status and respect. He would do anything he could to obtain this. So it isn’t very shocking to find out that he even killed his own half-brother for his own gain (Andrews). His mother taught him everything she knew about Mongolian politics and he was very passionate about.(TheFamousPeople). This helped him to rise through the political ranks very

The Mongols and Genghis Khan spared zero lives if they refused to surrender to him and his ruling. They killed men, women, and children. He would rip open the bodies of pregnant mothers and kill the unborn child (Lane). He would kill defenseless children's parents before their very eyes. Once their parents were dead, he then turned and brutally murder the children. If he could not persuade the young men in the family to join him, he would kill the entire tribe. Kahn was an evil man. He ordered his soldiers to repeatidly rape 4,000 Oirat girls while their families were to sit by helplessly and watch their daughters being taken advantage of (Brigden). Because of the deaths he caused, it is estimated that there was a drastic decline in the 13th century in the population from about 60 million people to as little as 10 million