A horseman on his journey to Tsertseleg, crossing a wooden bridge...
Though everything stood against him, he was to create the largest Empire ever on Earth. He was called Temudjin. His childhood may have been awful, his strong-willing personality made him survive. Often betrayed, he always kept his word and demanded his fellows the same conduct. In that Middle-Age, where, across Asia as well as in Europe, a human life is less valuable than a horse, where clashes and battles in the name of a Religion, a Prince or a King are an easy lot, he makes up a penal code so as to get rid of the arbitrary and identically applicable to EVERYONE, he establishes a postal service, which is to endure up to 1949, he sets a strict discipline among his Armies, he makes open commercial routes linking Asia and Europe, he shields Arts and Culture, he promotes religious tolerance...
Beyond these facts, Temudjin raised an Empire, in which the birth status or religion can no longer confine someone in a social class. In Temudjin's Empire, positions, responsibilities and honours are awarded according to one's merit and no longer to one's birth.
Here lies the Major Revolution crafted by this Temudjin, the obscure Mongol child no-one would have bet on.
Temudjin can account among the Great Men of Human History. He remains nowadays better known under the name Genghis Khan.
Genghis Khan...
