Genghis Khan

More than seven centuries ago an obscure Mongol nomad forged an empire from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean. His name was Temujin, later known as Gengis Khan, perhaps the greatest military genius the world has ever seen and certainly one of the most romanticized figures in history.But historians, as Mr. Ralph Fox says, have never given any satisfactory explanation for the great revolution in human progress that Gengis Khan produced. Some ascribed it to the genius of one man, but how such a man could rise from such obscurity they did not say. Some put it down to a sudden flowering of the Mongol nationalist spirit, but why a great national spirit should suddenly appear in a people without a history, without a national existence, they did not tell us. Others again sought the truth in the supposed simplicity and freedom of nomad life proving its superiority over more decadent and cultured peoples.