Mongol Perspective On Conquering The World (1206 - 1228) Secret History Of The Mongols
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Extract taken from Igor De Rachewiltz's superb translation of The Secret History of the Mongols published by Brill: brill.com/view/title/17746
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I’m a Mongolian and I really would love to know what english translation you used in this video.
I like how you take the time and effort to pronounce foreign names properly.
Pronounce your ks
Ppupp
PS lol
Imagine sitting in a tent and talking about whether to invade Korea, or Europe, or the Middle East, in the 13th century. Way before Age of Industrialization, or even the Age of Sail.
Imagine failing to capture a single castle in both Hungary and Poland, imagine failing to conquer backward Japan, imagine losing against mamluks,imagine not being able to conquer a single part of India 😭😭😭
Mongols empire aka the most overrated empire of all time
@@theentertainmentnation4694 Shhh, its ok to be envious, I understand.
@@theentertainmentnation4694, Japan- The storm/hurricane helped Japan. Mamluks- They were fucking badass and at that time the most formidable fighting units so yea fair enough. India- Chingis Khan saw no reason to invade them and when his grandchildren decided to invade later, the Army was a mere shadow of what it used to be under Chingis Khan and The Mobgolian tactics were outdated. All in all the Mongols were still very savage and brutal and they had no real reason to kill Hungarians, Iranian, and so on but the Mongols were not overrated, maybe a bit too cruel but most Empires around that time and before also were kinda cruel.
@Abdullah Bhatti Apparently you have never read Medieval history. Killing babies and old people was popular way before the Mongols. Both Muslims and Christians did that.
@@theentertainmentnation4694 largest empire ever at the time sure they weren't perfect but they did better than u ever did lol
It's darkly amusing that the story begins and ends with no less then Genghis Khan falling off of his horse and having to be hospitalized: it really does happen to the best of us.
It also says something for the loyalty of his troops, that they didn't desert or overthrow him in this moment of seeming weakness.
well treated
A Khal who can't ride is no Khal.
Car crashes of the time.
@@notevenjoe genghis was quite literally the stallion that mounts the world
Yup, that and getting castrated by the daughter of someone emperor you killed.
“Who can’t stop drinking may get drunken three times a month. If he does it more often, he is guilty. To get drunken twice a month is better; once, still more praiseworthy. But not to drink at all - what could be better than this? But where could such a being be found? But if one would find it, it would be worthy of all honour.”
― Genghis Khan
"Cannabis is better anyways." -someone who wasn't a tyrannical conqueror
@@crazypath573 Nah bro, those Sufi Safavid conquerors were high on grass 24/7
He found and killed millions of them in the Muslim world.
Genghis, stop going west right now. You're not going to like what you find
Alcohol Anonymous....13th century
As someone who’s always wanted too travel back in time to witness historic empires & events, this channel using the narration of historical accounts, makes me feel like I’m sitting at a fire with the Mongol’s sharing stories 🌌. What an amazing channel.
I used to want to travel back in time too. That is until I started watching videos like these.
you do realize you would be captured and killed in a horrific manner
TO, as in going TO. Not too, as in too big, too far, etc dopey 😐
@@jimmyohara2601 Too means also. English much?
If you liked this the I recommend you listen to Dan Carlin's Wrath of the Khans podcast series. They'll blow you away
You nailed the tone for this. Unspeakable violence set against beauty of the pale steppe.
Yours is amongst the best of the best
Stop looking for attention
Drop more videos ,i have been waiting for over a month
@@patrickjuma1373 the next one is coming along wonderfully, but production has been slow as we both have full-time jobs. We are jumping into CZcams full-time in July, so expect much more regular uploads then
@@HistoryDose that is what i am talking about!!!can hardly wait ,I wish u the best in this new phase of your careers🤞🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿cheers
"There is no warrior like [Yesügei] Bahadur, and no one else possesses the skills he had, but he did not suffer from hardship and was not affected by hunger or thirst. He thought his liege men could tolerate hardship as well as he could, but they couldn't. A man is worthy of leadership who knows what hunger and thirst are and who can judge the condition of others thereby, who can go at a measured pace and not allow the soldiers to get hungry and thirsty or the horses to get worn out."
- Chinggis Khan
(The Mongol Art of War - Timothy May)
He said that about his own father?
There is a named Yesugen and Yesui sister. They were queens of chinggis khaan
True, a leader cant just master his limits , he needs to understand others’ limits, to properly guide people without crushing morale.
Great job at pronouncing the names. The Mongolian language isn't easy, especially that of 800 years ago, but I notice that some youtubers don't even seem to try. It really makes the video quality that much better when the creator/narrator pays attention to the names of those he's narrating.
@Louie P It wasn't sarcasm. He actually did a good job
@Louie P Condescension where?
@Erqĭn Məmbetjanuli 🇰🇿 Q̆iyat That's because Mongol was not initially an ethnicity, it was an identity-- and Turks adopted that identity. Also, to call him Şınğıs Xan is just linguistically wrong, even for Orqun Turkish. His name was Chinggis Qağan
....? I mean I'm pretty sure this isn't pronouncing it accoridng tot he rponounciaiton of 800 years ago. This is just adding emphasis and making the [x] guttural, it isi what english-only spekaers *imagine* what these languages sound like and that it takes some kind of great effort and 'difficulty' to do physically pronounce it, some kind of intrinsic 'difficulty'
Age doesn't make ti harder or easier, and ease depends on the person and previous knowledge
@@mareksicinski3726 Yeah, modern mongolian is quite a bit different than classical mongolian. However, better to pronounce it like some form of mongolian rather than not at all.
Also, its not just the "x" that I was talking about. The vowels and syllabic stress also make a difference
'He killed them until they were like heaps of rotten logs' is such a chilling slimily.
Simile*
Smile**
Sillime*
Slime***
Love it
It’s unbelievable how the destruction of empires is given the honour of one or two paragraphs
To the Empires it was the worst and last days of their existence. To the Mongols,it was Tuesday 😂
Just another day at the office
Even Assyrians weren't that brief. Either Mongols didn't really care about it or they were so confident. I think they didn't really care. WAAAAARGH!
"From what I have seen, the one thing that people are least willing to give up is the desire to become a leader of others. You will see a person give up eating and drinking excessively; he will abandon wealth and expensive clothing. But when we assign him a position of leadership, he stands up and becomes antagonistic, defensive and ambitious"
-Sufyān al-Thawrī [d.778 CE]
@Black Lesbian Poet still stuck in 2013?
@Black Lesbian Poet your mama
@Black Lesbian Poet Keep trying to make people look bad lol
@Black Lesbian Poet Lord of Da Kangz liv in da Ghettoshire.
@Black Lesbian Poet imaging making a racist troll account to spam WE WUZ memes. What a sad pathetic life
20:55 If I understand this correctly, Ogodei chose him to die because he tried to usurp the throne while Ogodei was sick, and then the guy basically accepted his fate and said, "You need to do a better job organizing your empire," thus foreshadowing how the Khaganate split into 4.
Wrong, the history got it wrong. Ogodei did not choose him rather when asked no one approached but Tolui his younger brother. Tolui was not a traitor or usurper, he was the most loyal and respected- his martial prowess, and actions speaks louder then words sacrificed himself for the greater good to show others of the length his lineage the Toluid are welling to go in order to preserve and maintain unshakable order in the mongol court. It’s incorrect to announce him a usurper, story prob got change from the original so as to sow discord in the mongol court, opposite of the true meaning.
@@jacobxiong2739 u think hmong existed in this time?
Yeah I was trying to decifer what the narrator was conveying. Sounds like the prince gave back leadership once he knew Ogodei
had awaken by faining drunk. But maybe its was all test from the start that altimately got his brother(the prince) poisoned.
“Khatun (queen) is one of the most authoritative and magnificent words in the Mongolian language. It conveys regality, stateliness, and great strength. If something resists breaking no matter how much pressure is applied, it is described as khatun. The word can form part of a boy’s or girl’s names, signifying power and firmness combined with beauty and grace. Because of the admitted qualities of khatun, men have often borne names such as Khatun Temur, literally ‘Queen Iron’, and Khatun Baatar, 'Queen Hero’.”
― Jack Weatherford
Hatun is a respectable word for woman in turkish.
Also used as a title sometimes for women.
Khatun isn't a Mongol word. Whenever you see Khatun it's usually a Turkic bride. Khatun is the female equivalent of lord or sir. Same for Batur and Temur. Temur is the Turkic word for Iron. Those aren't Mongol words, titles and names.
Genghis Khan's real name was Timujin. Which means Ironsmith in Turkic languages. His father gave him that name after he defeated a Turkic rival. He respected his enemy so much he named his own son after him.
Central Asian people had a lot of influences from each other. But the prevalence for Turkic titles and people's in the Mongol army isn't surprising. Most of the tribes he "unified" were Turk, not Mongol. The army of Genghis largely consisted of Turkic troops. The Turkic people refused were slaughtered.
Hence when the Mongol empire fell, it splintered into smaller Turkic empires and gave rise to other Turkic empires. No one adopted Mongol while Turkic remained the dominant language in the central Asian steppes and beyond.
@@godofchaoskhorne5043 yeah most “mongol” troops that went west were Turkic I think
Yasss khatun
@@godofchaoskhorne5043 It is still a word in the Mongolian language, so he is technically correct. Also, his explanation on the meaning of Khatun is also correct.
Temujin (Chingis Khan) was sold into slavery to Tanguts when he was young man. He escaped and survived and later became a great khan of mongols. Tanguts treated him bad as a slave and were always arrogant towards mongols as they saw them as savages. Although culturally rich and more developed Tanguts still fell. And we see this pattern throughout history over and over. Arrogance of a more developed nation towards lesser one leads to demise of the first.
Never be arrogant.
Or as mongols say “Never treat a small kitten badly it might grow into a mighty tiger” ☝️
@@chinaboss6683 It might never wake up...
The art shown on this video is fantastic, particularly the horses, which is not surprising. 🐎
These videos are so interesting and yet incredibly relaxing also.
Tell that to the Tangut people.
@@klmeco nothing more relaxing than a bit of casual genocide
I listen to them before bed all the time
I love these videos. If you close your eyes and listen it’s almost like you were there with them. Thanks for making these.
I was having a tough day until I saw you posted a new video. Thank you for such a great channel!
it is nice to hear someone call Chinggis Khaan the correct modern title with the correct modern pronunciation
The correct way to pronounce any name is in the language rules of the people doing the talking. I laugh my ass off when village idiots try to insult somebody who doesn't pronounce a name in that persons native language. Most people cant reproduce the sounds made by many languages. The UK and the USA share the term schedule but its pronounced very differently by both and the correct way for an American to pronounce it is exactly how they pronounce it as they do in the USA. for example no matter how much wimpy Iranians complain that as Americans we pronounce their country Eye ran. We wont pronounce it E ron. Them whining about it only shows how weak they are. Whining is a sign of weakness.
@@pauldorfman701 Chinggis Khaan can be said perfectly in english and american. also why are you wasting your time writing a paragraph to someone who really dosnt care much, its not very smart. sidenote, Americans pronounce things wrong
You have the most incredible voice, listening to your pronunciation is superb 👌
Mongol perspective - conquer it, recruit it, when in doubt kill it.
isn’t there a burning the place down part?
@@gracie99999 that's a family passtime activity not a stratagem
Thank you for these stories, it really is a nice way to start a day with such tales, being so close to history. Have a nice weekend everyone.
Excellent all around! I especially enjoyed the music!
Excellent work. Thank you.
Wonderful channel and video, thank you very much ❤
Outstanding, simply outstanding.
“I have become drunk” is my new saying.
Thank you for pronouncing his name properly!
Another excellent video
"...that will be fine." Don't know why, but that made me laugh.
I can't fall asleep without these videos
Excellent love ur channel
Have been listening to the History of China podcast and the Mongol episodes are my favourite. The unstoppable might of the Golden Horde is truly awe inspiring.
Really a section of history that is criminally untold.
Ohh, the inspirations of mass murder and plunder 😻
@@Cecil_Auguspfp fits
@@Cecil_Auguswe never inslaved anyone and caused genoicide based on religion colour of a skin we never did these things never
@@ka3axka370 enslavement Im not sure, but genocide due to skin or religion has happened..
@@Cecil_Augus genoicide means when you identify certain group of people based on the colour of skin or ethnicity like the German did in WW2 to slavs Jews and roman during ruling of Green Khan non of this existed
That’s amazing never have I thought of this
2:09 Interesting tidbit that reminded me of something fascinating my old history lecturer explained regarding Medieval societies.
Their obsession with not bearing insults and quickness to respond with violence can seem laughable by modern standards.
Almost all (men) of the age were obsessed with status.
But if you understand the context, it's not a case of thin skin, nor is it as illogical and juvenile as it might appear.
Societies of the time (whether settled in castles of living nomadic lives on the steppe) were extremely unstable, violent places where privacy was a luxury and in physical security tenuous.
People were only ever safe through playing a role within the group and because those groups either hid behind castle walls, in small villages or even smaller tents, these groups tended to form very rigid group hierarchies. Within these hierarchies, everyone was watching everyone else at all times; enforcing norms, strict rules and traditions.
This in turn ensured the unity and security of the group.
If you had a place in the group, then you could ride with the raiders or hide in the lord's keep when those raiders approached.
However, if you didn't the world was a very dangerous place.
So, what people in your group thought about you, mattered more than anything else.
It was existential to everyone, even the guys at the top... in fact, especially the guys at the top.
This is why wars were literally fought over nothing more than petty insults at times.
Any slight on your honour, a worry of appearing weak or even the slightest insult; would be seen by the subject as a direct threat to their position within society and therefore a threat on their life, which could only be defended with violence.
This in turn perpetuated the constant state of violence that marked the age, making it more dangerous for anyone not in one of these rigid hierarchical societies (anyone on 'the outside') and reinforced the entire vicious cycle, for hundreds of years.
very very well said
Not to mention that if the defacto ruler of an area openly allows an insult to his person to go unpunished, especially the type of insult that implies NOT giving the support of men that the ruler demands, then said ruler will show weakness.
If you do not reprimand reckless, ambitious upstarts within your own territory, then word of your weakness will spread, which will cause more upstarts to rebel all across your territory.
It really isn't about personal honour in such a case, it's about maintaining what control over a fundamentally very volatile situation you can have. Having a vast empire comes at the cost of oversight. Rebellions from ambitious lords are to be quelled, not allowed to fester.
The open insult and refusal to give aid, was as much a declaration of war as is possible. They likely thought themselves capable of handling the Khan army, spread thin like all imperial armies are, and thereby underestimated their enemy. Ghengis did what was neccesary here, though destroying the enemy's people entirely is exceptionally cruel. That cruelty, however, serves as a lesson: "don't rebel, or you and yours won't see the end of the year."
George RR Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" has an excellently realistic example, though fictional, of the same situation, in the form of the young Lord Tywin Lannister, who responded to open threats and insults of his house by destroying all traces of the castameres, who refused to pay tribute to the Lannisters when demanded.
Those threats and insults were only possible because his father was a weakling, a coward, and somebody who avoided conflict rather than attempting to solve it. So Tywin had to pick up the pieces. If he didn't do this, the situation would only have gotten worse, and other petty lords would have eventually rebelled as well. The genocide he committed is very cruel, but serves as the most effective reminder of what House Lannister does to rebels.
As you said, medieval life, especially in areas of great conflict, was short, brutal and volatile. There is no other way, put simply, to deal with traitors and rebels, than brutal reprimand. You shouldn't let the wound fester.
Sounds like prison
"I rose from my bed and found the world made of men of soft flesh."
Hard men lead the mongols. Soft men lead the people they conquered. Hard leaders make hard men if they are good leaders. Soft leaders always promote soft men.
Hehe Boi
@@JohnSmith-sb2fp Not always...
These stories are worthy additions to be shown in age of empires games.
Wow the pronunciation of Mongolian names is very good
'Why is the comment section full of quotes?'
- Me
it’s quotation day
Cringe fascism
When you hear about Ghengis Khan, even his childhood sounds like a myth, his words and actions like a wrathful God. How could one not be enthralled to follow such a man?
"When Genghis Khan looks at you, you feel as though you will vanish if he looks away"
It’s like Augustus, there is a Roman story by the Emperor Julian that when presented to the gods most of the emperors were ignored but Augustus was pointed out by Zeus himself as his closest imitator.
@@historyrepeat402 yeah... that can be taken _any fucking number_ of ways if you give it a couple of seconds...
...or face death?
Still love watching this
Thanks. I would like more information about early Mongol mindset, especially with regard to cities.
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World is a good read, the early chapters of Genghis's life and the clan nations uniting is cool enough. But it covers city raiding in the south intimately, and it sorta followed thusly: "We found a outpost with 3 meter high walls. It was difficult to take, but when we took it we made sure to capture and spare the engineer who maintained these walls. Next we had a town with 4 meter high walls. Rinse, repeat. Better engineer. Small city wall. R&R. Large City wall. R&R. Capital wall, ect."
TLDR: The Mongols just sorta assumed that if it kept working, it was "Free Real Estate"
Your voice is soooo soothing (:
Been reading a lot on Central Asia lately. Wonderful.
There were 4 nations which have managed to defeat the 1200's Mongols in war ; Javanese (Majapahit), Turks (Khalji & Bahri Mamluks), Japanese, Vietnamese (Dai Viet). Mongols of the first half of the 13th century however were invincible
Some kingdoms in Northern India fought them off too.
funny how pathetic they are nowadays tho 🤦🏼♀️
The Japanese were able to control the weather?
@@FunkyAve69 I think it’s another group of people who do that.
@@82dorrin example?
One of the reasons why the Mongols were so brutal and merciless was because they almost never tasted defeat.
They didn't fear that anyone could possibly come and execute revenge for the slaughter of all the civilians because they basically thought they could not be defeated.
It took a long time before some people like the Mamluks and East Europeans figured out how to fight them
I absolutely love that you have made this video with the Mongoliin Nuutz Tovichoi but I have to remind you that the content in that book is not 100% from legitimate sources and over time "by the Chinese" could have likely been altered and more of romanticized many times over👌
love this
I was literally thinking of this topic few days last
Énorme boulot pour faire une synthèse pareille
Spoken as if it was a story handed down over several generations, even many centuries.
Chilling.
Thank you voices of the past , you truly are my favourite utube channel .
"We got good at conquering from playing War and Order!! HAHA!!!"
-13th Century Mongols
I listened carefully to the explanation of the world conquest of the Hyperpower Mongol Empire, which had the world's strongest military power. I was studying a world history textbook and it was helpful.
세계최강의 군사력을 자랑한 세계최강대국 몽골제국의 세계정복사에 대한 설명을 잘들었습니다. 세계사 교과서에서 공부중인데 참고가 되었습니다.
How do you get the source materials for this video??
Years ago I worked with a couple fresh off the boat Mongolian guys at a warehouse. They were very proud of their heritage and eager to live up to their aggressive reputation. Unfortunately for them, our Hispanic coworkers didn't care. The two groups eventually clashed and the Mongolians were outnumbered and got beat. Didn't see them again after that.
Lmao what were their names?
@@fybrogen7473 Did I say something funny? Or are you just another butt-hurt Mongolian who's been taught since birth that you're the world's toughest people?
This was over a decade ago. The only thing I remember about them is that they lived in Santa Fe Springs, CA and we worked for a window replacement company. The younger one was constantly bragging in broken English about how tough Mongolians are. They were quick to escalate even small misunderstandings to threats of violence. It was after one of these misunderstandings that they got beat and ran away.
where was this
Hispanics grouping up because they cant fight one on one? Get outta here...they would never do such a thing....
Mongols today are nowhere near as close as those of 13th century
4:30 the Khan recruitment system is exactly the same as the Cossack recruitment system of several hundred years later
Probably from who russians learnt imperialism from.
bravo!
I don’t know why his enemies were so bold after every campaign he has completed
This is why almost everyone should have a diary. After your diary can become the eye witness of the past in the distant future.
Came here for the Wild Asses, stayed for the conquest.
May I get the background song that is being played around at 11:00?
I want a show about Subutai so badly I find him endlessly interesting
"Git gud, noobs!"
-13th Century Mongols to the people they conquered. Probably.
Bloody brilliant comment broham.
"Skill Issue"
- Mongols when their enemies lament.
Blessed by the eternal sky,
Born of the steppe,
Everywhere in blue-skied Mongolia,
His name resounds in the world,
The courageous Mongol Genghis,
The sublime lord Genghis.
Even in burning wounds,
A mind strong as steel,
Like temporal swords,
As powerful as a planetary bird,
The courageous Mongol Genghis,
The sublime lord Genghis.
Blessed by the sky above,
Possessed half the world,
Engrained is his spirit,
In the majestic and mighty world.
The courageous Mongol Genghis,
The sublime lord Genghis.
The father of all genghis
Ancient song in praise of our Great Lord Chinggis Khan
czcams.com/video/p_5yt5IX38I/video.html
*HOH TENGEREES ZAYASAAAAN*
A mass murderer.
“A blue wolf took as his spouse a fallow doe, they settled at the head of the Onan river, and there were born the Mongols”
History Bros strike again!
"I want to trade."
"No. Arrested and executed."
What the hell was Khwarezm's problem?
Was *genocide* even a concept during GK's lifetime? Did it serve to *prevent* war retribution from future generations?
The best way to ensure successful propaganda is to separate the youngest generation from all others and radicalize them
You go so fast with the names it's not easy to keep up
Pregun powder wars are always awesome to here.
They are the exception
"Just as the mongols tore across Asia in the early 13th century" Isn't it amazing that we could say something so casually, especially when advertising an app game about an event that killed perhaps millions of people. Imagine, advertising a game like "Just as the Germans tore across Europe in the mid 20th century you too can build a Reich to wipe out your enemies.Even H!tler didn't have a dragon!"
it could happen in 800 years
Imagine saying something about the jews and holocaust oh boy
There were 4 nations which have managed to defeat the 1200's Mongols in war ; Javanese (Majapahit), Turks (Khalji & Bahri Mamluks), Japanese, Vietnamese (Dai Viet). Mongols of the first half of the 13th century however were unstoppable
Major nations destroyed by the Mongols ;
-Jin(Tungusic)
-Khwarezmids(Turkic)
-Souther Song(Sinitic)
-Kara Khitais(Khitanic)
-Cumania(Turkic)
-Kievan Rus(Germanic and Slavic)
-Seljuk Rum(Turkic)
-Abbasids(Arabic)
-Western Xia(Qiangic)
-Volga Bulgaria(Turkic)
Could you do more about Turks or of the memoirs of Evliya Çelebi?
Never break your word to the mongols
He was just unstoppable killing machine.
Imagine if Genghis Khan met Jingus Han
I wonder if temu is named after him
The history Brothers. Might as well own it. It's not conceded if it's true
I really need this soundtrack, what are the songs please!!!!
He is described as endowed with the highest intellect and a superhuman willpower , which enabled him to unite heterogeneous Turkic and Mongolian tribes into a single whole .
Chormaqan was one of the great commanders of the mongols
Sounds Uzbek
@@hattusilli2225 technically uzbeks didnt exist back then it was turkic kwarizian empire...chirmaqan was from mongol tribe
I just listened to some Mongolian rock and now I'm ready to conquer the world 🌎
was it good and whom?
well for what it’s worth, considering some are deeply effected by the past and what happened to their ancestors and is reflected
in their behavior and sense of being.
High time to get the narrative straight cause we don’t want the past to influence us so
and have people suffering the consequences
of those we weren’t connected to in action.
“hey kid you ain’t the only ones, everybody went thro this in one form or shape and btw..
prime example our current status is one
we all [politicians included and the like] face
the end of us
@@gracie99999 what on earth are you talking about and to whom i might add.
well it was written as a legendary account long after it happened
Genghis Khan: I saw, I conquered, I came.
Thumbnail photo?
How were the Tang'ut any use to Genghis Khan if they couldn't move their towns?
I was thinking about something like this while watching Khuzait ride over everyone in Mount & Blade II Bannerlord.
yeah, the tough faction to handle. They are the reason to gain tactics and expand the cav by all means. Because their cav have no numbers.
If Ghengis was in that same position and the Shamans asked him to sacrifice a close family member I bet he doesn’t do it.
I didn't know there were mongols who knew how to read and write at the beginning of the conquests
I believe Temujin recruited the help of a Nestorian Uyghur scholar to develop a writing system (old Mongolian) for Mongolian early on, around the time he had unified the Khalka (eastern) Mongols and before many conquests beyond nearby Turkic or Mongolic peoples. Regardless, the Mongols were merchants as well as pastorialist raiders and therefore a minority had probably found it useful to learn how to use the written languages of neighboring peoples (Chinese, possibly Xi Xia [which were relatives of the Tibetans, but I don't think we can read their stuff today], possibly even Uyghur or Soghdian from the western frontier in Central Asia). Temujin &/or his advisors were familiar enough with other cultures to ask a Uyghur (who used a largely phonetic abjad/alphabet based on Soghdian and ultimately Aramaic/Syriac; also there are grammatical similarities between Uyghur [a Turkic language] and Mongolian) rather than a Han (Chinese characters are neither phonetic nor easy to learn, plus the spoken languages have almost nothing in common either).
Is it just a coincidence that Kitat sounds like Hittite?
Yes. The term "Hittite" comes from the city of Hattusa, in modern-day Turkey. Kitat was a term used to refer to the Jin Chinese.
Thank you, however I’m rarely sold on answers that appear so sure. Let’s say there’s no evidence to link them necessarily, but that can change.
@@The3Basics Things sounding similar but being completely unrelated is quite a common occurrence.
Sure, but things sounding similar and being related is also common, so that logic isn’t going to hold here.
@@The3Basics Except there's nothing that actually links these two extremely different cultures.
Chinggis Khaan, blessed by Eternal Blue Heaven!
well it’s like the controlled fire..it’s controlled
The Monguls!!!!
its hard to imagine their casual relationship with death & brutality
Never heard of Jingus Hahn.
same
Neither have I, until I heard someone say that's how Genghis Khan is pronounced in the Mongolian language.
Any history on the “HMONGS” ?
wasnt jebe dead by the time ogedai marched? how could he be ogedais vanngaurd?
The Mongols are staging a comeback, so watch your selves,
Genghis Khan got nothing on this Chingus Han guy.
so chingus Jan is real
Dingus John
Is that the agreed upon way to pronounce it? Chingis Hon? I've always been saying it like Gang-gis Kon!