Pax Mongolica: Genghis Khan & Kublai Khan
Conflicted: A History Podcast
The Last Grave of the Most Important Mongolian Who Ever Lived
In the west, you'll often hear it pronounced gengis with a hard g, but in mongolia it's pronounced with a chu, sound like chingis khan. And while his physical body may be lost, almost every educated person in the world knows his name - jengis k Khan. But for a man who has almost universal name, and who millions more share a direct blood line with, we know almost nothing about him,. at least physically. We don't know how tall he was. We don’t know if his voice was deep or high. Wedon't even know exactly how he died. Yet i cannot think of another historical figure of
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