Compare And Contrast Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World
J. Chandler
W. Carraway
World Civilization I
October 22, 2012
Genghis Khan Genghis Khan was both a feared military conqueror ad an intelligent administrative of the empire he created, but I think that khan being an intelligent administrative of his empire was the most important of the two of shaping the modern world. Its most his techniques he used as the military conqueror that made me certain. Khan fighting techniques shows that he has leadership skills, he was able to the find his enemies strengths and weaknesses and use it against them. His leadership skills where to good use when he trained his army to win. In “ Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World” written by Jack Weatherford, he stated that “ […] Khan’s innovative fighting techniques made the heavily armored knights of medieval Europe obsolete, replacing them with disciplined cavalry moving in coordinated units. Rather than relying on defensive fortifications, he made brilliant use of speed and surprise on the battlefield, as well as perfecting siege warfare to such degree that he ended the era …show more content…
Weatherford“ In twenty-five years […]. Khan, together with his sons and grandsons, conquered the most densely populated civilizations of the thirteenth century. […] In American terms, the accomplishments of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, […], had been founded by one of its illiterate slaves, who […] united the people, created an alphabet, wrote the constitution, established universal religious freedom, invented a new system of warfare, marched an army from Canada to Brazil, and open roads of commerce in a free-trade zone that stretched across the continents. […] Khan’s accomplishments challenge the limits of imagination and tax the resources of scholarly explanation” (Weatherford
W. Carraway
World Civilization I
October 22, 2012
Genghis Khan Genghis Khan was both a feared military conqueror ad an intelligent administrative of the empire he created, but I think that khan being an intelligent administrative of his empire was the most important of the two of shaping the modern world. Its most his techniques he used as the military conqueror that made me certain. Khan fighting techniques shows that he has leadership skills, he was able to the find his enemies strengths and weaknesses and use it against them. His leadership skills where to good use when he trained his army to win. In “ Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World” written by Jack Weatherford, he stated that “ […] Khan’s innovative fighting techniques made the heavily armored knights of medieval Europe obsolete, replacing them with disciplined cavalry moving in coordinated units. Rather than relying on defensive fortifications, he made brilliant use of speed and surprise on the battlefield, as well as perfecting siege warfare to such degree that he ended the era …show more content…
Weatherford“ In twenty-five years […]. Khan, together with his sons and grandsons, conquered the most densely populated civilizations of the thirteenth century. […] In American terms, the accomplishments of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, […], had been founded by one of its illiterate slaves, who […] united the people, created an alphabet, wrote the constitution, established universal religious freedom, invented a new system of warfare, marched an army from Canada to Brazil, and open roads of commerce in a free-trade zone that stretched across the continents. […] Khan’s accomplishments challenge the limits of imagination and tax the resources of scholarly explanation” (Weatherford