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Genghis Khan Part 1: Underdog to Emperor

Real Dictators

CHAPTER

The Last Throw of the Dice

With his military growing and reorganized, temudin is within touching distance of becoming the dominant mongol leader. His old friend turned nemesis, temuka, an stubbornly in the picture. Jamuka makes a major play in the year 12 o one. He calls a council of the clans to back his claim to leadership of the mongols. On the first day of the battle, the cavalries of both armies prove finely matched. Each side looks to the heavens for evidence that they are favoured animals - their bodies burned and their bones studded by shamans. When lightning strikes and the air rumbles with thunder, the shamans sell it as a sign of divine intervention

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