The Lost History of Genghis Khan - Mongol History DOCUMENTARY
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The Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on Mongol History continues with a video on the lost history of the Mongol leader Genghis khan (Chinggis), as we try to deduce what he was doing for the 10 years he is absent in the sources. Was he a mercenary of the Jin dynasty and did they created their worst enemy?
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Genghis Khan must have used the missing years to be a Shaman to also attain religious power
Do you have a video on sun tzu ?
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you wrote DOCUMENTARU instead of DOCUMENTARY
Khmer Empire next. Please
"I just deactivated all my social media accounts for ten years, and everybody thought I disappeared..." - Genghis Khan.
Before being Chengiz Khan
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He/Him/His***
I kept telling people that Genghis was a mount and blade protagonist but no one believes me. He : 1. Started weak and easily pushed around by just about anyone, even butchering his first big battle. 2. Joined powerful kingdom as mercenary, then became vassal with his private army, gaining prestige, power, relationship with nobles and knowledge of the kingdom. 3. Found some excuse to break off and invade his former kingdom, while getting nobles with high relationship to defect and join his new empire. 4. Conquered much of the world before he died with his sons continuing his legacy
I think same bro.For the Genghis we are a worthless npc.
His descendants today ironically (now Turkish) made the game Mount and Blade itself
Nah, khergit is suck
So much videogames for this generation.
@@PerryKobalt Turks are not his descendants, Turkic people are separate/distinct nomadic group.
The life and career of Genghis is so remarkable that it almost defies belief. If his story was written as fiction, it would have been dismissed as an outrageous fantasy. Considering his humble beginnings and the torturous difficulties that he had to endure and slowly build his base, his achievements are greater than those of Alexander and Caesar. Alexander and Caesar were born into privilege and within very established powers; Genghis was left out in the wilderness as a child with his family to die after his father was murdered. He had to learn to just survive. He had no education and no tutors. He had to learn on his own over many years of struggle and even failures. To me, this is more impressive. He endured a level of hardship over a long period that most people can't even imagine.
Speaking of Genghis Khan, there is a 1956 movie about him named "The Conqueror", in which the mongol Lord of War is played by no other than John Wayne (no wonder why that movie is considered one of the worst ever made). In fact, that film caused the death by cancer of 46 members of the staff, as it was filmed in zones actively used for nuclear tests
That's probably the strangest thing I've heard all day, and I now want to read more about this.
so you can righly say Genghis khan killed 46 americans ^^, the more you learn ^^
@@Mirokuofnite I agree. The smoking killed him more than where that film was made at.
Awfully unwatchable movie. What were they thinking?
@@josephpercente8377 money
The Jin character used in the video is the wrong one. 晋 is the name of an earlier ethnic-Chinese dynasty (the successor to the Three Kingdoms), whilst 金 is the Jurchen kingdom in Northern China you were referring to in the video. The former is pronounced in the 4th tone and the latter 1st. 金 Jin (literally "gold") is so named because the Jurchens vanquished the Khitan 辽 (the name of an iron alloy) dynasty in its early days. Many of the former Khitan Liao nobility later detected to Genghis in his invasion of Jin. Great/very well-researched video otherwise!
The Qing dynasty was also initially called the Later Jin, with this character
This mistake with using 晋 for 金 happened before.. They are two different dynasties as described by Calvin Liu.
These Chinese characters loot like painting 🎨 Love how creative people where making this alphabet
@@fnapFNAP Definitely a field day for any calligrapher.
@@angusyang5917 where can i learn Chinese history in English ? Any recommendations?
The sheer amount research that went into this video is mindboggling!!! Classy content, as always.
It was done by Jack Wilson, the Jackmeister channel.
I’m sure Temujin was finding the pieces to the Dragon Banner and gathering ducats to establish his own empire.
I somehow missed how the experience of the Mongols with China was similar to barbarian tribes in Europe sitting next to Rome; they were tolerated, placated, used, moved around, and then pounced when the great empire was flagging and took it all down. Awesome vid!
Think both the mercenary and captive angle make sense. In fact, I think it's likely that Temujin initially offered up his services to the Jin before being taken captive, but more as a hostage along with his family, at least for a time. It would certainly add an extra layer of perceived justification for conquering them later on. More wood on the fire, as it were.
Amount of research had to be done in these videos are incredible. I learned more about my country's history from this channel than school and university. The history we thought was narrow and one sided. Showing all the great things about the Khan instead of going into deep analysis of the events. Mongolians perceive Khan as a absolute flawless commandor but rest of the world used to think he was a mindless barbarian. These videos are really useful for giving balanced ideas about him or any other historical figures. He was neither mindless murderious barbarian nor flawless godlike being.
Love this video. People often look at the end-product, rather than the struggles to get there.
Temujin went from a captive minor warlord to a conqueror of his former Jin tormentors sounds as impossible as Vlad Dracula conquering the Ottoman Empire. Yet Temujin did it. What a man.
Doesn’t surprise me as Vlad was Tatar of origin
@@brianmccarthy5557 i know that Vlad was a great leader but those who have not a rich history should stop stealing history. Vlad was from the house of Basarab and it is of Cuman origin wich were a Tukic nomadic people that sought asylum in the kingdom of Hungary after the Mongol invasion in 1237. Cumans played an important role in the Latin empire, Byzantine empire and the Nicaea enpire. Many eventually settled west of the Black Sea, influencing the politics of Kievan Rus', the Galicia-Volhynia Principality, the Golden Horde Khanate, the Second Bulgarian Empire, the Kingdom of Serbia, the Kingdom of Hungary, Moldavia, the Kingdom of Georgia, the Byzantine Empire, the Empire of Nicaea, the Latin Empire and Wallachia, with Cuman immigrants becoming integrated into each country's elite.
@@user-cg2tw8pw7j let me guess, your source is “let’s iranize everyone”?🤣 iranians are being a joke lately lol
@@SU.66 People should stop using word Cumans and use the proper term Qipchaq (Kipchak).
@@user-cg2tw8pw7j stop this iranian bull alreadyHitler made up Arians and now people think theyhe meant Iranians. iranians live in Iran weak warriors conquered 100 times by Greek, Turkic, Mongols, English
K&G finally talks about genghis's youth as Temujin
Boy did I just find a gem of a channel! This is great man, thank you.
For a while the channel was not putting out a lot of videos, I figured from splitting time with your fantasy channel. Thank you for going back to your normal output!!!! These videos are great. I watch all of them.
Love this channel!!!One of the best history entertainment and accuracy of info. Thank you, I've learned so much from y'all!!!
Modun - Attila - Chinggis The three steppe titans of Tengri
add Timurlane. he is the prince of destruction
Temujin proceeded cautiously on his approach to the Naiman territory. He knew the Naimans would outnumber him when the time came to give battle. Their warriors had a fierce reputation, their commanders known for their tendency to take the offensive and press the attack. But Temujin also knew that the Naiman king, Baibuka Tayang, was not a good general. Long before the present war he had taken the measure of the man and concluded that, "the Naiman are strong in numbers, but their khan is a weak man who has never been out of his tent."25 When in command of a strong army, even a weak general can be dangerous, however, for as an old proverb had it, an army of lions led by a donkey was more dangerous than an army of donkeys led by a lion! Gabriel, R.A. (2006) Genghis Khan's greatest general: Subotai the valiant. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. p.12
@@herbthompson8937 it is and its I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. its a quote from Alexander the Great.
Great job as usual! I was wondering if there is interest to cover the further legacy of Mongols beyond the Golden Horde you covered in a video about how they lost control of Russia, like the White Horde, and then Uzbek and Kazakh khanates. Recently Putin and his supporters purported claims like Kazakhstan never had a statehood, just like they pushed similar claims for Ukraine before invading. Kazakh khanate was large and one of the successors of the Mongol empire and existed for several centuries before the Russian empire absorbed it in the 19th century. It was always fascinating for me how we look alike with Mongols and how similar was our way of nomadic life, but how different we were in terms of languages and culture, as well as religion. They obviously assimilated into the local way of Turkic life, just like they did in China, but I would have expected more cultural similarities.
Yeah, we have to make more videos on Central Asia... It is a blindspot for the Western viewer right now, and that region will be becoming more and more important.
Are you Mongolian?
@@thewarriorfrog He is from Kazakhstan, i think
I guess it's a good thing Putin is too busy ruining himself in Ukraine that i doubt he's gonna get the chance to play land grab in Kazakhstan.
@@thewarriorfrog kazakh
Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job
Thanks I didn't know a lot of this information 👍🏻
As a Mongolian I agree that Mongolians would taboo if our great khan went to Jin to seek a refugee. It seems very likely. Kudos to K&G on sheer research made on the topic
Great video!
Good Video brother 👍
Problems of all rulers of the sedentary civilizations: Provoking the charismatic leader among the nomads.
I'm getting tired of seeing literally every history KZheadr promote established titles
They get good money for it
@@Schizz76 so why stop?
@@StrawHalo44 ikr
@@StrawHalo44 cause it's a literal scam
Woah, I love a good KZhead documentaru!
Such a fascinating guy And video
@Kings and Generals it would be nice if you could make a video about the Hazaras of Afghanistan. They have subtribes named after Mongolian and Turkic tribes. For example Besudi, Naiman, Dai Khitai, Turkman, Qaralugh, Qarabaghi, Tatar etc.
The Para-Mongolic Khitans are still existing but none of them know Khitan language 😮
@@temor8829 where are Barlas ?
@@aqeeldean686 The Barlas were a Turkified Mongol tribe whence Timur/Tamerlane came from.
@@AthrihosPithekos I know brother. I was asking for location. Like where are the tribe Barlas located today?. Salam.
@@aqeeldean686 They were to be found in what has become Uzbekistan today. Roughly.
I'm actually curious now. GK was always a big fan of SEVERE retribution (see Khwarazmian Empire, or resultant lack thereof), so I have to wonder what could have been if the Jin didn't break faith. In this narrative, tribute was still being paid and stopped only after Jin turned on him. He had to know that he was going to be replaced as favored barbarian border vassal. So he had no choice but to move against them. But what if they kept talking his tribute? Dynastic squabbles were commonplace, so maybe ou boy Temujin might have just backed one of his homies play for emperor. Or even become a hired warlord against the Song. It really seems like punking Ghengis Khan out was one of histories greatest mistakes. As to nesting such a serpent to their breast, well they did that a whole bunch and no e of those guys blew up like that. There might be a connection here between dynastic and governmental upheavals and poorly thought out and executed betrayals, as this isn't the only example of this by any means. Perhaps I'm wrong though and unexpected power shifts are the mere product of deity and destiny.
Love learning steppe history!
@@guzelataroach4450 lol your arse
Mind blowing documentary
I would love to learn about all the neighboring countries at once existed.. their cultures, language and way of life is a beauty we never got a chance to see or learn about in this lifetime 😢
Love learning about this hidden history of Genghis. However, may I point out that the Jin Dynasty of the 1100's is written as 金 ，and NOT 晉 which is a 3rd CE dynasty with the same Anglicized pronunciation
just love the mongol soundtrack in these episodes
Love videos on Genghis Khan.
Interesting video
Great Work! Also the next video will be about the liberation of Kherson. Am I right?
my grandmother is Mongolian from Xinjiang.
quite rare to have mongols from Xinjiang because the dzungar mongols were genocided by the Manchus and Uyghurs.
@@zackwang9314 Yes, but the Manchus later resettled some of their Mongol Bannermen to garrison Xinjiang.
So technically ur my oirat brother lol
@@zackwang9314 i mean genocide was 268 years ago and there is over. 700 thousands oirats now worldwide
@@zackwang9314 and wouldnt say they got genocided by manchus and hui s there were also 40thousand inner mongols 20thousand khalkha soliders
This Total War Attila music theme is spectacular.
Could you do a video on the cities who surrenerred?
Great video, but just a side note: at 10:30, the video uses 晉 as the character for the Jin dynasty that Genghis Khan overthrew, but the correct character is actualy 金. 晉 is actually the name of an earlier Jin dynasty that succeeded the Three Kingdoms period in the 3rd century CE.
just a minor point... The Jin Dynasty of 1115-1234AD is 金, not 晉 晉 is the Jin Dynasty of 266-420AD, or the "Later Jin" Dynasty of 936-947AD Actually, in Mandarin, 晉 is pronounced jìn, while 金 is Pennines pronounced jīn. And in Cantonese they're completely different.
I love documentu!
The Jin engineering their own destruction by sheltering Temujin would certainly fit the pattern of most of human history.
More notably, trying to ambush him when he came to pay tribute. It's ridiculous how many rulers tried to backstab him, only to doom their own empires. Hindsight is 20-20 and all, but man was crossing Genghis Khan a bad idea.
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Wow really? Just like that one mental health scam a few years ago
You'd think that when he became king of the world he'd write his OWN history, something that fills in all the gaps. Though the Mongols very famously didn't write their own records, they got other people to do it for them so maybe it just didn't occur to them.
He did have his own history written in his lifetime. If you look closely at the Yasa as it has been passed down, some parts of it still has the reasons behind certain laws that are taken from his own life experiences. The most famous of these is the one about all parts of any animal being OK to eat because during a campaign his army ran out of food and they found the innards of an unidentified animal, cooked, and ate them. The original Yasa was full of little stories like this and it was probably arranged according to the sequence of those stories instead of any logical organization of the laws. Later on, Mongol chronicles decided to reorganize the Yasa to make it more rational as a law book and got rid of first the sequence, then the stories themselves.
The correct character for Jin dynasty of this era is 金 , not 晉 / 晋
Yes, they have the same spelling and very similar pronunciations, so it's easy to mix up
Many talk about the atrocities that Khan committed, but few mention that he "personally" repopulated the populations that were under his rule. If that's not dedication to recovering the country, then I don't know what is.
repopulated with who?
@@zackwang9314 everyone
@@zackwang9314 his offspring
@@comsubpac exactly. That person speaks as if mongols were repopulating the locals..... when reality it is colonialism.
@@zackwang9314 No, he means that he personally produced the offspring with the local female population.
Interesting..
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@@guzelataroach4450 what
He was grinding for renown. Clan tier has to be at least 4 to be eligible to create kingdom
one mistake in video：the character of Jin Dynasty is not "晋" but "金". the 晋 was another chinese dynasty established in 3rd centry which was 900 years before temujin's time. While 金 dynasty was founded in around 1115 BC by jurchen people (女真) and then conquored north China. character 金 means "gold" in chinese. both 晋 and 金 are pronounced as almost same as "Jin", but in different tones, 晋 is 4th tone, 金 is 1st tone. anyway they are 2 different historic concepts. exvept this minor mistake, this video is great!
A great man fuels great legends.
You know actually this reminded me a bit of King David working for the Philistines, he works for them as a mercenary and when King Saul was killed they installed him as king and backed him in his word succession against two Saul's sons! Later he turned on them and reduced them to being his vassals, ambitious warlords 🤷🏻♂️
Kings and Generals, I am learning a lot of some of the Mongol Empire history and there are some more Mongol invasions that you haven't uploaded such as: Java Sakhalin Burma Tibet Korea And many more.
Chinggis' sabbatical more like
It would be great if you could consult a native Mongolian speaker about the pronunciations of certain names.
I’m trying to get the simplified story of genghis khans life while high and no matter how hard I tried to focus on this video, I just couldn’t focus on it.
Yet again, reminding everyone to not use established titles. They may donate money, but that plot land does not belong to you and you CANNOT call yourself a lord or lady. Owning land in Scotland does not make you a lord or lady
Good theory.
I wish they'd make a real movie about Kahn. I also understand a lot of his story maybe miss interpretation or just missing all together.
Check out Mongol it's pretty good there is a sequel coming out soon. It is subtitles tho
Great work as usual can’t wait to see the revamped Mongol series with the battles of the badgers mouth passed in China as well as the Indus River in India the return of Genghis Khan let’s go
Mongol Jin War will break out from 1211 - 1234 (see War of Wild Fox Ridge and Siege of Caizhou.)
Good
We need a good laugh please do the battle of Karensebes
What did you think of the first installment of a recent trilogy of movies about Chinggis Khan?
What? Where and when did it happen?
Imagine you are the greatest conqueror the world has ever seen, and yet people flock to a 10 year gap in your CV like flies to manure.
5:48 Damn life was not good in those days
Wasn’t Jochi a Merkit?
It was really suspicious. Because Çağatay used to insult him like that, on top of that, Jochi means guest. But Genghis Khan always rejected such a claim
We are in Thanksgiving month, so it would be interesting to talk about Precolumbian cities like Tenochtitlan or Palenque!
Or Cahokia
I hope you meet some Jurchen ghosts in future. They would be indeed pleased to be described as a Chinese dynasty!
What do you mean? Even the Chinese have accepted their status as a Chinese dynasty from the Ming era.
Oops, you made the exact same error as you did in the video from the early days 10:20 晋Shanxi ≠金* Gold “Kim”
Excellent video 📹 B**** TO THE CHINESE How history repeats itself. For hundreds of years, the British asked for trading concessions from the Mughal Empire of Indian subcontinent. Extremely plausible.
If there's a gap there's a reason for it. Someone most have trained him as a general, and he clearly knew the Chinese well.
The legend of Khan
If this is the case he’s certainly a Bannerlord Character
First, manjurs and chinese are two differrent nations. In Gengis time mongols have boarders with Majurs/zurchid not with chinese dinasty.
Wang 汪 is not the meaning of king, it is a last name, 王 is the meaning of king wrong letter ( I know Chinese can be confusing as heck sometimes)
6:00 G O O D S O U P
Hiring manager: So, Genghis, how do you explain the 10-year gap in your biography?
If I ever did di the lordship 1+sqft thing..id find the exact plot that is mine..cut down everything..and bud my own mini castle
6:03 The Mongols had huge 'cooking pots ' to boil " their prisoners. Could you imagine, if you got boiled 😳 in your own pots.
I don't think it makes a difference if you are boiled in your own pot or somebody else's pot.
This is new, using sountrack and illustration from stronghold warlord to tell about mongol
We watch this for free, O Men of History
Documentary* title
Probably started a Total War game,
Dad, is that you?
I wish you were clearer in the names of Kingdoms. Calling the Jin or Tanguts China is revisionistic as they weren't so in that era.
Maybe Genghis is Satoshi?
He didn't unite and become king(khan) of the mongols till he was 40 years old and I guess this might have happened during that time.
"You men! You will visit each of the outlying tribes. You must convince as many as you can to join our glorious army. But beware the Kara-Khitai. They are without honor."
I rather like the idea that Genghis Khan got his A** beat, went to the Jin, learned well, and then wiped them off the map. Seems fitting, a power move Julius Caesar would be proud of
Please do a detailed series of sikh empire and it’s wars
It's weird to think the only good movie about Genghis Khan is the Russian movie Mongol. Was going to get the Hollywood treatment but got scrapped since people finally realized casting Mickey Rourke in the role was racist, and they decided that oh no, without Mickey Rourke, we can't possibly have a Genghis Khan movie. Would really like to see one. Marco Polo on Netflix was okay, but took place after he already had the empire, which is less interesting to me. Also, it had too much fucking Marco Polo in it.
You have written the character for Jin wrong. 金 is the correct character, not 晋 which is the dynasty following the 3 kingdoms period around 900 years earlier.
Please actual Kherson offensive and fall of "special operation" by red invaders.
east mongolic tatars werent nowadys tatar. Nowadays tatars (kipchak turks)
Ah look its my great great great great great gre... ... ... ... ... grandfather! And yours too!