Genghis Khan
Temujin unified the Mongols and opened the conquests. His death in 1227 did not end the project; his law and sons structured it.
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Died
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Darker cells mean a higher score for this topic on that metric.
Scale85
Intensity82
Duration70
Tech shift35
Political impact80
Cultural memory60
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Quick answers
Are the scores a ranking of nations or armies?
No. Scores are browsing aids inside an era-bounded atlas — not live league tables of countries.
How many died?
About 20-40 million is a commonly cited scholarly-range band across Eurasia, with very high uncertainty. Some local chronicle figures are impossible as censuses. Use ranges.
Did they "conquer the world"?
They built the largest contiguous land empire, then stopped or failed at Japan, the Mamluk Levant, and parts of Southeast Asia. Sea and desert edges mattered.
What was Baghdad 1258?
Hulagu's forces took the city and ended Abbasid caliphal rule there. Chronicle death figures are huge and disputed; the political shock is not.
How was Korea involved?
Mongol campaigns against Goryeo ran through the 1230s-50s. Later, Goryeo was forced to support Kublai's Japan expeditions of 1274 and 1281 -- a Korean tragedy inside a Japanese legend.
What is Pax Mongolica?
A later phrase for relative security on some overland routes in the mid-to-late thirteenth century. It does not cancel the conquest deaths.
Chinggis is a modern national icon in Mongolia and a villain in many city chronicles. Both are memory, not a scoreboard.
Kublai-via-Polo is the English portrait; Wonjong-via-Goryeo annals is the Korean one this atlas insists on pairing.
People
Ogedei Khan
Ogedei ran the China war and the 1230s-41 western explosion. His 1241 death stopped the European campaign as a political fact.
Reign
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Europe
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Capital
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Subutai
Subutai is the named operational mind of the western campaign in later military histories -- treat those histories as secondary, not as manuals.
Theatre
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Partner
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Fame
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Batu Khan
Batu held the western army and then the Kipchak steppe polity that taxed Rus' princes for generations.
Campaign
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Horde
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Rus'
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Hulagu Khan
Hulagu took Baghdad in 1258 and built a Persian-centred khanate. Ain Jalut marked his Levant limit after Mongke's death pulled forces back.
Baghdad
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Limit
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State
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Kublai Khan
Kublai finished Song China, declared the Yuan, and launched the failed Japan wars that burdened Goryeo. He is Polo's host in the English tale.
Yuan
3
Japan
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Died
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Wonjong of Goryeo
Wonjong's era embodies submission-and-survival politics under Mongol power -- a Korean face for a Eurasian war.
Realm
3
Bind
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Japan war
3
Baybars
Baybars's Mamluk state held the Levant line after Ain Jalut -- the named limit-figure in the west-Asian story.
Battle
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State
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Role
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Debate
How many really died?
The live scholarly fight: high "world-historical" totals versus local downward revisions. This page keeps a wide band on purpose.
Terror policy or chronicle genre?
Both can be true: massacres happened; some numbers are literary. Neither reading is a how-to.
Film Genghises are almost useless as history and very useful as evidence of Western fantasy.
Japanese kamikaze shrine memory of 1281 erases Korean forced labour unless textbooks correct it.