Genghis Khan Explained: How an Outcast Boy Conquered the World

Abandoned on the frozen steppe as a child, hunted by rival clans and locked in a wooden collar, Temujin should never have survived. Instead, he united the Mongol tribes, became Genghis Khan, and built an empire that his family would stretch from Korea all the way to Eastern Europe. In this animated history: 🐎 Life on the Mongolian steppe 🏕️ Temujin’s brutal childhood and daring escape 👑 The 1206 kurultai and the birth of the Mongol nation 🏹 Horse archers, the fake retreat and the decimal army 🏯 The Great Wall, siege engines and the fall of Zhongdu (Beijing) 🔥 The Khwarazmian war: Otrar, Bukhara and Samarkand 🗺️ The secret grave, Kublai Khan and the Silk Road 🧬 The surprising DNA legacy