GENGHIS KHAN: The Peasant Who Conquered the World

Sources:
Frank McLynn: Genghis Khan
Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Music by Edward Karl Hanson

[lemmehxthat]

So many friggin horses
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[seasoraa]

I love your pronunciation, as someone that speaks mongolian yours was the closest ive heard from a non native speaker

[Laotzu.Goldbug]

Genghis Khan was _never_ a peasant. He was merely a dispossessed nobleman. This is a fundamental distinction. (He was the son of a clan chief, chased out of power by other rival aristocrats)

This may be hard for people to grasp in the modern world where true metaphysical class distinctions have almost ceased to exist and people conceive of wealth as the only marker of distinction, but this is a relatively recent phenomenon. Temüjin always would have understood himself as a member of the elite, even if he was dressed in rags and had not a coin to his name. It was not wealth that made one a peasant or an aristocrat but the blood in their veins.

[theone]

I have been obsessed with Genghis khan since I was like 6 so you don't even know how happy I am that my favorite creator made a video about him

[ijustwannabeatpeace]

0:44 horses are horsin around in a horses video.
What a wonderful world we're living in!

[xoxo]

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[SauloA]

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[mizew]

I’ve read 2 books about Genghis Khan. Know entirely too much about his life. And I am still going to watch this video and learn something new. Thank you for your videos sir

[Saddison]

Ive been watching your videos for over a year now and am so happy to see you cover one of the most interesting people in history. Keep up the great work.

[CirclingDuck]

00:50 Muhammad is a much, much better analogue for Genghis Khan than Jesus. Jesus neither led armies nor built empires, nor did he unify disparate tribes in his homeland into a single polity. He did not personally spread a new civilization across diverse countries or establish dynasties from his followers that would rule successor empires for centuries. However, all of these accomplishments apply equally to both Muhammad and Genghis Khan.

It's debatable whether Jesus or Muhammad was more globally influential overall. I’m undecided on that particular debate. However, historically speaking, Jesus was primarily a preacher. While his indirect influence was undoubtedly immense, Christianity was shaped more by the writers of the Gospels, refined by Paul into a distinct faith, and ultimately spread by the Romans within an existing empire. Islamic civilization, on the other hand, was more directly shaped by Muhammad, who most probably did all the religious preaching, holy book writing and early empire building himself.

I don't expect to get many likes for this because it's undercuts religious narratives for both Islam and Christianity. But I feel it needed to be said for the sake of historicity. I'd say that both Jesus and Muhammad are leagues ahead of Genghis Khan in terms of influence in any case.

[tiffany]

i wish every topic ever was narrated and produced by horses

[MegaDarkWolfGaming]

2:50 his father is killed and they are sent into exile, he is 12, then while in exile he kills his brother, now he is 10, where did i get lost, temijun is a time traveler?

[thelordkk]

So many comments about horses rather than the actual topic of the video. The video is amazing

[SomasAcademy]

I'm so confused by why his video continually referred to Temujin as being "born a peasant" when he was born the son of a major Mongol chief. Like, yeah his father died and he lost everything, but that was decidedly after he was born.

[olliecarroll]

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[khristal]

as a Mongolian i am literally flabergasted how this video is really good

[BOZ_]

42:43 - Temujin's sons? Ogedei was the greatest of great Khans, perhaps only his father excepted; he captured more territory than his dad and commissioned public works, far exceeding his dad. Projects include the construction of roads, bridges, and infrastructure improvements, enhancing trade and communication across the Mongol Empire; emphasising state-building and administrative development. Unfortunately, the civil war that came after his death, pretty much began the end of the empire.

[potatopirate]

Oh, I can't tell you how badly I needed a Horses upload right this minute. Not only the best content on youtube, you just can't beat the prescient delivery.

[dominus]

Both you and the Fall of Civilizations posting a video about the Mongols on the same day is one of the best things that has happened to me all year.

[ljolivarez]

0:10 is when I realized I literally mispronounced his name for the entirety of my life