In the film Mongol, the characters go through a series of adventures that lead to the beginning of the Mongol Empire. As the film first starts out a young boy named Temudgin, goes to find his bride from the Merkit clan. His father is the khan leader of a different tribe, and is taking his son to choose a bride from the Merkits as a peace treaty for stealing his wife from them years earlier. As they go on the long journey to the other tribe, they stop in a smaller one. There Temudgin falls in love with a girl called Borte and chooses her as his bride, knowing that this would make the Merkits upset. The father even though he did not want this, allows it and is proud of his son for making his own decisions. Throughout the film Temudgin and Borte …show more content…
maintain a strong and loyal relationship. They first meet when they are nine years old when Temudgin sees Borte he falls immediately in love. Temudgin is passing through her khan to go find himself a wife from the powerful and angry Merkit tribe. This did not go according to plan because when Temudgin sees Borte, he falls in love with her. Asking his father to practice for choosing a bride, he tricks his father into letting him marry Borte. Before they leave, Temudgin promises that he will be back for Borte saying that he just knows that Borte is the right choice for a wife. Many years later Temudgin goes back to Borte’s tribe to collect his wife that he had chosen all those years ago. Borte knows that he would come back for her and she waits for him faithfully over many years. Both of them know that they are meant to be together. On multiple occasions Borte saves Temudgin’s life and reciprocally Temudgin saves Borte’s life several times. When the two of them are battling the Merkits, Temudgin gets shot in the back. Knowing that he will die if she does not intervene, she hits his horse to take him back to his mother’s house so he can live. By doing this the Merkits capture her, and she is forced to be separated from her husband. Temudgin saves Borte by starting a whole war and putting his life at risk to save her, although Jamukha tells him many times that he can choose a different wife.This just proves that they are willing to do anything to protect one another. When Temudgin gets sold into slavery, he is forced to sit in a jail cell for many years. Borte goes on a rescue and takes her children and travels all the way to get to him.
She threatens people, with a knife, to get the key to his cell and breaks him out. He then claims her new daughter, as his own recognizing how much she has sacrificed. Although Borte does not have children with Temudgin, the two children she does have were born to protect or save him. Her first child’s father is from the Merkit khan. As soon as she hears that he is coming to rescue her she kills her child’s father. When he sees that she is pregnant he immediately claims the child as his own knowing that she has had the child to protect him. Her second child was born when she goes to rescue him from the jail cell. Not having any money Borte is resourceful in going to rescue him. When a caravan man comes and is going where she needs to go, Borte finds an alternate way to pay him. After she rescues Temudgin she forgets about the caravan guy and Temudgin claims the child as his own again. This describes their unconventional relationship because even though they go through many tragic adventures together, they always are faithful to each other. Temudjin admires the way Borte is always there to help him and he is more than willing to father her children, even if they were not with
him.
Many people ask “How Barbaric were the Barbarians”. The truth be told, the mongols were more barbaric than they were peaceful. They were able to conquer more than 4,800,000 miles of land using brutal and strategic military tactics, destroy and conquer cities, along with using extremely harsh punishments for their prisoners. Because of this, the mongols were able to stay in power for about 300 years. Many people believe that they mongols were more peaceful than they were barbaric because of how economically stable they were. However the mongols killed thousands and left millions terrified across Asia.
The Mongols, a nomadic society in the 13th century, were quickly able to conquer a vast amount of land in Eurasia. The Mongols were able to accomplish expanding their empire so widely and so fast because they had many military tactics, and their army was extremely well trained. These both got them a leg up on their enemies. The Mongols were incredibly ruthless at times in battle and used interrogation tactics to gain intel. Plus, their soldiers were trained from a very young age and always prepared.
I am going to critically review a newspaper article on the death of Hamzah Khan from Bradford. I will discuss the main findings the research methodology and the way in which it may or may not be useful in the contribution to our understanding of child welfare. I will also include information on child abuse and on the different agencies. The newspaper article is called Hamzah Khan: the harrowing story of an 'invisible' child. (Pidd, 2013)
The Mongols were nomadic people who didn’t know much about mining, and didn’t farm. They mostly lived off of meat and milk. They used hides from horses and wools from sheeps for their clothes and materials. The Mongols first conquered land, when Temuchin was given the title Genghis Khan. The Mongols were barbaric, they conquered a lot of land, and they were smart.
One of the eras of a majestic ancient civilization that has left a lasting impression upon the world of today is the Chinese Song Dynasty. Established by General Zhao Kuangyin this dynasty lasted from 960–1279 AD and brought a new stability to China after many decades of civil war, and ushered in a new era of modernization. It was divided into the Bei (Northern) and the Nan (Southern) Song periods. This brilliant cultural epoch gave birth to major advances in economic reform, achievements in technology, and helped to further medical knowledge.
In the 13th century BC, the Mongols rose to power and conquered an empire whose size still has yet to matched. The Mongols conquered lands such as China, leaving such a lasting influence on them that their legacy still lives on. However, despite the Mongols success, their actions have left a constantly ongoing debate on whether they were barbarians, seen and portrayed by different societies of their time as people with no morale or modern civilities, or civilized people who were just feared by other societies. Although the Mongols are generally now seen as Barbarians because of their violent and barbaric war tactics they used to instill fear in people, they are actually civilized because they had a strategically organized army, and because they were accepting of the customs of other peoples. These two elements would eventually lead them to their success.
Another idea for why the Mongols began there conquests has to do with Ghengis Khan again. Maybe he felt he had to prove something to himself or to the gods. He lost his father when he was only nine years old. The thought of being such a great leader would maybe have given Ghengis Khan the belief that he was pleasing his father. These thoughts could have given Ghengis Khan the strength and will power to try to bring the tribes together to begin there conquests.
The Mongol Empire was a very powerful which conquered more land in two years than the Romans did in 400 years. Also, they controlled more than eleven million square miles. The Mongols were very important because they created nations like Russia and Korea, smashed the feudal system and created international law, and created the first free trade zone. In the beginning of the Mongol Empire, they mostly lived in foothills bordering the Siberian forests mixing heroing and hunting. They also became really good at archery and riding horses. The main reason the Mongols came to be so powerful was all because of a man named Genghis Kahn. Genghis was born around 1162 with the name Temujin. Due to the death of his father, Temujin was left under the control of his older brothers. Soon enough, he was married to a woman named Borte. Borte was later kidnapped, in which Temujin proved his military skills when saving her. Not to long after this, Temujin became the leader of his tribe. Yet, to unite the Mongol confederations it required a civil war, which Temijun ended up winning. After proving his skills and loyalty, Temijun was declared the Gr...
This document, "Giovanni de Plano Carpini: On the Mongols", was written by Giovanni de Plano Carpini, a Franciscan friar and Pope Innocent IV's ambassador to the Mongol Khan. This is a primary source and a historical account of what Kiev, Russia looked like six years after it was sacked by the Mongols. Giovanni de Plano Carpini describes the town as "reduced almost to nothing" and that the Mongols had "made great havoc, destroying cities and fortresses and slaughtering men" (Giovanni de Plano Carpini). Additionally, he talks about the Mongol's military strategy as they surround cities and use siege engines, not to mention their phycological warfare (Giovanni de Plano Carpini). Furthermore, it references how the Mongols searched for “experts,
Later, on the year of 1177, the young boy was captured by one of his father’s old tribes, the Tayichiud. These men enslaved and tortured him. It wasn’t until a father of the tribe, Chilaun, helped him escape. He soon joined forces with other men and his name spread quickly around the Mongols. At this time, he started studying the “difficult political climate” between the tribes and grew up to learn the truth of society which included tribal warfare, thievery, raids, corruption, and continuing acts of revenge.
Genocide is the deliberate killing of all or part of a racial, ethnic, or religious group. Genocide is carried out through ruthless acts of violence, and oppression. There have been many acts of genocide documented throughout history. In this essay I will focus on the Armenian genocide, specifically how it was carried out and how the Ottoman Empire rationalized their actions.
This story can be summarized by dividing the story into three major sections that represent a genealogy of the Genghis Khan ancestors, the lifestyle of Genghis Khan and the story of Genghis son and Ogodei his successor. This piece of early time’s literature was translated and edited by Jack Weatherford and it was not released until 16th February, 2010. The piece of work restores early history’s most prominent figures to the positions they rightfully deserves. It clears the picture of the nomadic lifestyle of the Mongols and it is rich with information regarding the society of the Mongols in the 12th and the 13th centuries” (Kahn, 2005).
The Mongol Empire appeared in Central Asia through the 13th and 14th centuries as the biggest land empire in history. A consequence of the union of Mongol and Turkic tribes, the empire took form under the control of the legendary Genghis Khan, also known as Great Khan, which means emperor. All through his period, Genghis Khan started a series of invasions called as the Mongol invasions, frequently accompanied by the major-scale slaughter of civilian populations. This led in the conquest of the majority of Eurasia. By the end of Genghis Khan's life, the Mongol Empire occupied a considerable segment of Central Asia and China. The empire began to divide as a consequence of battles between succession heirs, especially regarding Kublai Khan and Ariq Boke.
The Western culture has evolved over a span of several years with various civilizations specializing in specific aspects of life or nature. In essence, Western civilization dates back to the BCE periods when Ancient Greece, Mesopotamia, and Ancient Rome reigned. Each of the Western civilizations came with a clear lineage that portrayed such attributes as property rights, free market economy, competition, personal freedoms, and innovation (Perry, 2013). Besides, the western civilizations came at different periods with some of the attributes evolving or remaining unchanged throughout the lineage. However, the non-western civilizations contributed towards such attributes to a given extent, primarily because of the interactions among
The Tang Dynasty (618 -907 A.D), also known as China’s glorious revelation, was a time of major change both politically and economically in the Chinese Empire. During this time period, trade became greater than ever. The military power strengthened. The population also increased during this time period from fifty million to eighty million in just two centuries with its large population base, the dynasty was able to raise professional and conscripted armies of hundreds of thousands of troops to contend with nomadic powers in dominating Inter Asia. The Tang also has a strong influence on its neighboring states such as Korea (which was at the time made if of three kingdoms) and Japan. During this time period the Silk Road expanded and trade