Originally posted by: myviewprem
40 million? 4 crore - cannot believe it were there so many people in asia-europe at that time?
Read Ghenghis Khan- Birth of an empire Conn Iggluden
His real name is Temujin not Gheghis Khan -that is name given by his islam descendants to address him
Xan(pronunced as Khan in many countries) in mongolian means king
In mongolian khaant means country so xan(khan) rules khanate
Khagan(qayan in mongolian) means king of kings by which name Ghenghis khan was called meaning emperor
Its a 5 book series and well written
Ghenghis had the most horrible childhood and youth that any human can have(atleast i have never read any other human suffering so much not even babar whose life again was pathetic)
that is why he was so ruthless so voilent to protect his family
I read Ghenghis killed his elder brother because he was stealing food from his younger brothers and sister who were very small. He was 11-12 years old when he killed his brother.
He even killed his elder son Jochi because his subjects and family and he himself suspected that he was not his son. Because Borte(his first wife and empress) was kidnapped by rival cheiftain and then after that 8-9 months later jochi was born. So no one was sure whether he was Ghenghis son or that cheiftains and that chieftan send a letter to him saying your son is a ba***. But no one dared question Ghenghis whose son he was.
That is where the elder son was not allowed to become emperor and 3rd son became emperor and others were kings(4 hordes) of their province. That is why in mughal it is believed sons fight to become emperor and elder one has no legal right to throne. If only ghenghis not doubted his elder son and made him emperor this parampara would not have come and so much bloodshed for throne everytime an emperor died. But other son's descendants did not follow this rule of best son fighting and winning like china, russia etc only elder son became king
Ghenghis was killed by his 3rd wife
Ruling family in china, korea, turkey, serbai, russia, europe(hungary, austria, lithuania, romania, poland) , iran, central asia, mongol all are direct descendants of gheghis khan family
Only his 3rd son chatagai khan converted to islam others remained buddist(china, japan) or christians(russia, europe) till date
Timur Lane the timurid ruler was not a descendant of Genghis Khan. He claimed it falsely. So Mughals can only claim they are descendants of Timur not Ghenghis.
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