Andrei borissov genghis khan biography

His real name was Temuyin, which means "the best steel". The great Genghis is the name he received after claiming the throne as the Great Khan of the Mongols in Mongol warrior and conqueror who unified nomadic tribes from an ethnic clan in northern Asia, founding the first Mongol empire, the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world.

Under his leadership as Genghis Khan, the Mongols began a conquest campaign that extended their rule over a vast territory beyond the Mongolian steppes, from the Pacific Ocean to Eastern Europe and from Siberian to Mesopotamia.