Chinggis Khan

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Table of Contents Preface Persons Mentioned in Text Chronology Maps Introduction: Eurasia in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries Chapter One: Origins of Chinggis Khan: Mongolia in the Twelfth Century Chapter Two: Education of a Hero, 1160s-1180s Chapter Three: Making of a Khan, 1180s-1190s Chapter Four: Uniting the People, 1190s-1205 Chapter Five: Organizing the Empire, 1205-1210 Chapter Six: Opening a Southern Front: The First China Campaigns, 1207-1218 Chapter Seven: To Central Asia and Beyond: From Mongol Khan to World Conqueror, 1218-1223 Chapter Eight: Return to Mongolia: The Last Tangut Campaign and Chinggis Khan’s Death, 1224-1227 Chapter Nine: Legacies: The Mongol Empire, Eurasian History and Modern Mongolia Glossary Genealogical & Reign Chart References Illustrations Index

Concise and incisive, each interpretive biography in the Library of World Biography Series focuses on a person whose actions and ideas either significantly influenced world events or whose life reflects important themes and developments in global history. 

Drawing upon the latest scholarship, Ruth W. Dunnell presents as clear an account as possible of who Chinggis Khan was, where he came from, why and how he pursued his career as a world conqueror, and what it meant to the world then and later.   In these pages readers should gain insight into how the Mongols saw and experienced the world, and the logic of their actions in it.  

Ruth W. Dunnell is the James P. Storer Professor of Asian History at Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio. She specializes in the history of China and its Inner Asian neighbors in the 11^th to 14^th centuries, and has published extensively on one of those neighbors, the Tangut state of Western Xia (Xi Xia, 1038-1227), in the conquest of which Chinggis Khan met his end.

Concise and incisive, each interpretive biography in the Library of World Biography Series focuses on a person whose actions and ideas either significantly influenced world events or whose life reflects important themes and developments in global history.