Genghis Khan: Lord of the Mongols (TRIH ep 166)
1206 · Resource
This episode is the second instalment on Genghis Khan, hosted by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook with guest Ali Ansari. The conversation surveys Genghis Khan's early aims (uniting nomads and raiding China for plunder), his declaration as Khan in 1206, and his subsequent campaigns in northern China and Central Asia. The hosts and Ali discuss major episodes of violence — notably the invasions of Khorasan/Khwarazm, and the sacks of Bukhara, Merv and Nishapur — weighing contemporary Persian acc...
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Around 1206
- Magna Carta (1215)
- Mongol Conquests (1206)
- Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan (1206)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Genghis Khan (1162)
- Delhi Sultanate (1206)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Sack of Constantinople by Fourth Crusade (1204)
- Mongol invasion of Rus' (1237)