What If Genghis Khan's Life Was a Racing Game?

Genghis Khan's life, played as a two-player race: his age on one timer, the size of his map on the other. The map doesn't even start until he's about 44, and it keeps growing for 82 years after he dies, into the largest contiguous land empire in history. We also cover the mail, which had yearly inspections and a penalty for losing a piece of string. Every fact has a source (list below). Where historians disagree, and on the famous DNA claim they do, the video says so. CHAPTERS 0:00 Start: Genghis Khan's life vs the map in one run 0:40 World 1: Genghis Khan's birth and childhood, 1162 to 1171 1:13 World 2: Temujin abandoned on the steppe, the survival years 2:28 World 3: Borte kidnapped, and the rescue with Jamukha 3:24 World 4: Temujin vs Jamukha, the lost decade, 2,600 men 4:40 World 5: How Temujin became Genghis Khan in 1206 6:20 World 6: Western Xia and the fall of Zhongdu (Beijing) 7:01 World 7: The Otrar caravan and the war with Khwarezm 8:34 World 8: Genghis Khan meets Changchun, religious tolerance 9:11 World 9: Jebe and Subutai ride around the Caspian Sea 9:46 World 10: The Mongol postal system (yam) and paiza passes 10:51 World 11: How Genghis Khan died, and where he is buried 12:08 World 12: After Genghis Khan, the portrait and the DNA claim 13:40 Final: Genghis Khan's 65 years as a 65-second replay SOURCES Bawden. Genghis Khan. Encyclopaedia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/... Taagepera (1997). Expansion and Contraction Patterns of Large Polities: Context for Russia. International Studies Quarterly 41(3), 475-504: https://doi.org/10.1111/0020-8833.00053 Wilson (2022). Chinggis Khan's Missing Ten Years, 1186-1196. Medievalists.net: https://www.medievalists.net/2022/07/... de Rachewiltz (2015). The Secret History of the Mongols, shorter version ed. J. C. Street. Western CEDAR: https://cedar.wwu.edu/cedarbooks/4/ Morgan (1990). Cengiz Khan. Encyclopaedia Iranica V/2, 133-135: https://www.iranicaonline.org/article... Columbia University, Asia for Educators: Chinggis Khan's Four Great Legacies: https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/mongol... Columbia University, Asia for Educators: Mongol Unity under Chinggis Khan: https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/mongol... Columbia University, Asia for Educators: Three Invasions Led by Chinggis: https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/mongol... History of Yuan (1370), vol. 1, Annals of Taizu (Chinese): https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%85... History of Yuan (1370), vol. 118, biography of Alaqush (Chinese): https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%85... Juvaini. The History of the World-Conqueror, trans. J. A. Boyle (1958), vol. 1: https://archive.org/details/historyof... Li Zhichang. The Travels of an Alchemist, trans. A. Waley (1931): https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.... Rossabi (1994). All the Khan's Horses. Natural History: https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/mongol... Columbia University, Asia for Educators: The Status of Merchants under Mongol Rule: https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/mongol... Marco Polo. The Travels, trans. H. Yule, ed. H. Cordier (1903), vol. 1: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10636 The Met: Safe Conduct Pass (Paiza) with Inscription in Phakpa Script, 1993.256: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect... Craig (2017). Why Genghis Khan's tomb can't be found. BBC Travel: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20... Columbia University, Asia for Educators: Ogodei: https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/mongol... Columbia University, Asia for Educators: The Collapse of the Empire: https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/mongol... Columbia University, Asia for Educators: The Myth of Chinggis Khan: https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/mongol... History of Yuan (1370), vol. 75, Sacrifices (Chinese): https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%85... Zerjal et al. (2003). The Genetic Legacy of the Mongols. American Journal of Human Genetics 72, 717-721: https://doi.org/10.1086/367774 Wei et al. (2018). Whole-sequence analysis indicates that the Y chromosome C2*-Star Cluster traces back to ordinary Mongols, rather than Genghis Khan. European Journal of Human Genetics 26, 230-237: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-017-00... Lkhagvasuren et al. (2016). Molecular Genealogy of a Mongol Queen's Family and Her Possible Kinship with Genghis Khan. PLoS ONE 11, e0161622: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.... Juzjani. Tabakat-i-Nasiri, trans. H. G. Raverty (1881), vol. 2: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.... Which topic should we speedrun next? Tell us in the comments. #genghiskhan #history #mongolia #pixelart #speedrun #mongols