Genghis Khan, also known as Yuan Taizu, was originally named Temujin, the 32nd year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, that is, in 1162, born in the Mongolian Beggars Tribe. At the end of the 12th century and the beginning of the 13th century, the various plateau departments of Mongolia were successively unified. In 1206, he was elected as the Great Khan of all Mongolia and honored as Genghis Khan (a powerful Mongolian word), establishing the Mongol Khanate. Subsequently, he actively expanded outward aggression and began a period of large-scale conquest, in the following 22 years, dozens of wars were launched, attacking Jin and destroying Xiaci, conquering the western region, conquering Goryeo, and sweeping through western Liaoning. His lifelong military activities swept half the world, expanding beyond Mongolia itself to northern and western China, invading southern Siberia, Central Asia, and the South Caucasus. There are many opinions on how to evaluate Genghis Khan's activities during this period.
The mighty Genghis Khan
There is an opinion that Genghis Khan's war of foreign aggression did not have much destructive effect on the productive forces of Mongolia itself, but had a good effect, and Mongolia was still stable internally. It is also believed that the aggressive wars waged by Genghis Khan and his successors resulted in the mass death or displacement of the Mongol people, resulting in a sharp decline in population.
For the false prosperity caused by the war of plunder did not and would never bring any benefit to the development of Mongolian society and the growth of wealth. Mongolia was also unstable, but both inside and outside the imperial court were busy invading and plundering outwards to cover up the contradictions, and they were in a temporarily hidden form.
Sweat heavily and you have to take care of your body
According to another opinion, the "negative factors brought about by Genghis Khan in the process of unifying northern China are, after all, short-lived, individual, and secondary phenomena" compared with the positive effects they had on the promotion of national reunification. National unification will be good for the development of production, but it is not an absolute and decisive factor.
In fact, although the unification of the Yuan Dynasty ended the chaos in the Central Plains, the local people were not able to really settle down, and this national unification did not bring more favorable conditions to the economic development of the Central Plains, and did not appear such as the "feudal prosperity" in the early Han and Tang Dynasties, and also brought some backward and negative factors to the Mongolian society.
The sacrifice of Genghis Khan was unprecedented
Another opinion says that the result of Genghis Khan's Western Expedition flattened the fortress on the East-West Road and promoted cultural exchanges between China and the West, which is the main aspect of the influence of the Western Expedition. Some people think that this statement is to cover up and whitewash the guilt of the Mongol Empire for launching a war of aggression, because of this war, the establishment of a large empire across Europe and Asia, objectively smoothing the east-west road, expanding the commodity and cultural exchanges between the east and the west, this should certainly not be erased.
But the consequences of the Mongol invasion of Central Asia were severe, and after this war destroyed a center of civilization in the Middle Ages. The devastating and harmful effects of this Mongol invasion should never be left aside to explore the objective consequences of the so-called "blessings and misfortunes" that are called "the blessings of misfortune."
Genghis Khan was proud of genghis Khan for a generation, whipping invincible hands all over the world, but after his death, the empire immediately fell apart. For his brilliant military career, how to evaluate, I believe that readers and friends have their own views, you can leave a message below, and communicate with the editor.