Diperkirakan pada hari ini di tahun 1227 pemimpin Mongol Genghis Khan meninggal
- Legenda bertahan bahwa dia ditikam oleh seorang wanita dan akhirnya kehilangan terlalu banyak darah untuk tetap berada di pelana. Namun, penyebab kematiannya tetap menjadi misteri, tetapi penjelajah Marco Polo menulis bahwa dia meninggal karena luka panah yang terinfeksi, tetapi sebuah penelitian menyimpulkan bahwa dia mungkin meninggal karena penyakit pes.
Dalam hidupnya, kekejaman Genghis Khan melegenda, meskipun sebagian besar berasal dari sejarah yang ditulis oleh orang-orang yang dia taklukkan. Di Mongolia, dia dianggap sebagai bapak heroik bangsa. Khan menaklukkan daerah empat kali lebih besar dari yang diperoleh Alexander Agung dan putra-putranya memperluas kerajaannya, cucunya, Kublia, menjadi kaisar Tiongkok yang bersatu.
It is thought that it was on this day in 1227 that Mongol leader Genghis Khan died
- Legends persist that he was stabbed by a woman and eventually lost too much blood to stay in his saddle. However, the cause of his death remains a mystery, but explorer Marco Polo wrote that he died from an infected arrow wound, but a study concluded that he may have died from bubonic plague.
In his life, Genghis Khan's ruthlessness was legendary, though much of that comes from history written by those he conquered. In Mongolia, he is considered the heroic father of the nation. Khan conquered an area four times larger than that gained by Alexander the Great and his sons went on the enlarge his empire, his grandson, Kublia, became emperor of a united China.