Genghis Khan Personality

Genghis Khan as Administrator/ Emperor: Shaping the Modern World
Genghis Khan was born ‘Temujin" in Mongolia around 1162. At age 20, he began building a large army with the intent to destroy individual tribes in Northeast Asia and unite them under his rule. Genghis Khan was one of the most feared and influential leaders of his time. He took a country of feuding tribes and with his victories assembled Mongolia into the largest and most powerful empire in the world. The Mongol Empire lasted well after his death in 1227. His role as an intelligent administrator/emperor was most important in shaping the modern world through his religious tolerance, globalization, and democracy. He demonstrated religious tolerance which has survived to this day

He also spread technologies such as paper, gunpowder, paper money, the compass, and trousers. He revolutionized warfare. Weatherford suggests that the concepts of the Mongol Empire created the nucleus of a universal culture and world system with the emphasis on free commerce, open communication, shared knowledge, secular politics, religious coexistence, international law, and diplomatic immunity. Weatherford attributes low levels of discrimination towards other races, low level of meddling with local customs and culture, the idea of rule by consensus within Mongol tribes, culture of meritocracy, culture that believed in the rule of law, strong sponsorship of Eurasian trade, building of roads to support trade and the first culture to promote universal literacy to Genghis Khan rule. Genghis Khan believed laws were necessary for the survival of the state. He made many laws. Genghis Khan's system showed signs of a democracy created far advanced of its time. We can now see influences in our Western Culture of various political, economic, religious, military, and social connections today. In writing down all his rules and judgments he created the first signs of a legal system. He created a legal code called the Jasagh. He established the ‘rule of law' which applied equally to everyone because he was isolated as a