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Yesugei Baghatur or Yesükhei (Traditional Mongolian: ᠶᠢᠰᠦᠭᠡᠢ ᠪᠠᠭᠠᠲᠤᠷ; Modern Mongolian: Есүхэй баатар, Yesukhei baatar, [ˈjosuxɛː ˈbaːtər]; Chinese: 也速該; pinyin: Yěsùgāi) (b. 1134 – d. 1171) was a major chief of the Khamag Mongol confederation and the father of Temüjin, who later became known as Genghis Khan.
Genghis Khan [a] (born Temüjin; c. 1162 – August 1227), also known as Chinggis Khan, [b] was the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire. After spending most of his life uniting the Mongol tribes , he launched a series of military campaigns , conquering large parts of China and Central Asia .
Temüjin's 1206 coronation and entitlement as Genghis Khan preceded turmoil in Hö'elün's personal life. At a kurultai (large assembly), the newly-crowned Genghis handed out rewards to those who had aided him during his rise to power—twenty-one paragraphs of the Secret History are devoted to recording the details of the bestowals. [ 39 ]
Hamdallah Mustaufi, who completed Tarikhi guzida in 1330, states that 800,000 people were killed and massacred during Hulagu's siege of Baghdad in 1258. [14] Western Xia Tangut Empire had a population of 3,000,000, [15] [16] [17] but most of the Tanguts including children and women were massacred and killed by the army of Mongol invaders under ...
Genghis Khan was born c. 1162, son of a Borjigit warrior named Yesügei, a member of the Qiyat sub-clan; over the next decades, he subjugated or killed all potential rivals, Borjigit or not. [3] By the time that Genghis established the Mongol Empire in 1206, the only remaining Borjigit were the descendants of Yesügei. [ 4 ]
He was also a half-brother of Genghis Khan, then known as Temujin. On the death of Yesugei, Temujin, his mother Hoelun, his siblings and two half-brothers (including Behter, Belgutei and their mother Sochigel) were abandoned by their tribe and left to fend for themselves. [1] [2] Living off the land, they managed to survive.
The last total solar eclipse occurred in Indianapolis in September of 1205, back when Genghis Khan invaded China, and experts say this eclipse passed on only part of what the metro area is today.
Orgil Makhaan went on to star as Jamucha in By the Will of Chingis Khan, a 2009 joint Mongolian and Russian film production. He has also featured as a judge in the Mongolian The Models TV show. He was the Mongolian organiser for the Netflix series Marco Polo and in 2017 founded the Mongolian National Film Commission with himself as president.