Dzingis kan je bio
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Džingis-Kan
It has a concept of nomad history as a whole. It runs from Jenghiz Khan to Tamerlane and afterwards, more briefly, to decline in modern times. Read this through and you gain a sense (or Prawdin's ideas) of the movement of that history over time. What are these nomads about? Prawdin does have ideas on that, which makes him worth a read. He sees Jenghiz as the nomads' champion. His account of Tamerlane is the only one that has interested me in that guy. It makes sense of the campaigns of Jenghiz and offers strategic insights too.
The nomads won a battle but lost the war - as seen over the centuries, as Prawdin sees.
It has the asset of being a lively, story-like read. This history of course is as exciting as a novel, and there's no earthly re
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Džingis-kan
Džingis-kan (1162-1227), (ime je katkad pisano Čingiz ili Čingis; pravim imenom Temudžin), mongolski osvajač, utemeljitelj najvećega kopnenoga carstva u historiji.
Rano doba
[uredi | uredi kod]Sin poglavice maloga mongolskoga plemena, Temudžin je naslijedio titulu u 13. godini nakon što su mu pripadnici jednoga neprijateljskog plemena otrovali oca. Podaci o ranom razdoblju Temudžinova života potječu iz "Tajne povijesti Mongola", mongolskoga epa napisanoga oko 1250. Po tome izvoru, problematične vjerodostojnosti, no jedinom povijesnom vrelu na raspolaganju, članovi plemena su izabrali novoga poglavicu, a Temudžin i njegova majka su nastavili živjeti unutar plemenske zajednice, ali na marginama, jedva preživljavajući skupljanjem gomoljika i čuvanjem stoke. Po drugim je legendama Temudžin pao u ropstvo susjednoga plemena, no to je manje izgledno.
Ujedinjenje plemena i stvaranje mongolskog naroda
[uredi | uredi kod]U svojim dvadesetima, Temudžin se nametnu
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Genghis Khan: The Early Years
Temujin, later Genghis Khan, was born around 1162 near the border between modern Mongolia and Siberia. Legend holds that he came into the world clutching a blood clot in his right hand. His mother had been kidnapped by his father and forced into marriage. At that time, dozens of nomadic tribes on the central Asian steppe were constantly fighting and stealing from each other, and life for Temujin was violent and unpredictable. Before he turned 10, his father was poisoned to death by an enemy clan. Temujin’s own clan then deserted him, his mother and his six siblings in order to avoid having to feed them.
Shortly thereafter, Temujin killed his older half-brother and took over as head of the poverty-stricken household. At one point, he was captured and enslaved by the clan that had abandoned him, but he was eventually able to escape. In 1178 Temujin married Borte, with whom he would have four sons and an unknown number of daughters. He launched a daring