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

as freedom of religion. His globalization is an economic process that has had social and cultural influences still relevant today. His "rule of law" which applied equally to everyone, along with his legal codes and general moral injunctions and laws were the first sign of a legal system.
Genghis Khan was a title bestowed on Temujin, which means universal ruler. The title has a spiritual significance of Genghis Khan being the representative of Mongke Koko Tengri the "Eternal Blue Sky", the supreme god of the Mongols. It meant that Khan was destined to rule the world. Religious freedom was granted within his realm, but to defy the Great Khan was equal to defying the will of God (Weatherford, XIX). Even though Genghis Khan was godless himself, he allowed his followers to worship freely. It is a long-held Mongol tradition of religion as a personal conviction. A conviction not subject to law or interference. Similarly to the United States Constitution's First Amendment separation of church and state. Genghis Khan also set up an institution that ensures complete religious freedom. This brought religious freedom to the rest of the world.
Genghis Khan conquered so much of the Asian continent and expanded his empire to the extent that without him our world would be totally different. Weatherford's research shows the Mongol conquerors as the creators of the first globalization and the inventors of the modern world.
The Mongols' globalization under the rule of Genghis Khan includes organizing the first free- trade zone, lowering taxes for everyone, establishing the first international postal system and distributing the wealth of war around so that it would circulate commercially (Weatherford, XIX).

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

child.
Genghis Khan organized the empire in which he conquered so that it survived and thrived long after his death. In doing so his legacies are still present in our Modern World. He left his imprint on various political, economic, religious, military, and social connections of today.