Genghis Khan Dies

On August 18, 1227, Genghis Khan died in a camp in northwestern China while his army besieged the Tangut capital. His commanders kept the death secret, held the lines, and accepted the city's surrender in the name of a man already gone. This episode traces the road to that tent: a fatherless boy named Temujin, the alliances that made and betrayed him, and the army he rebuilt so thoroughly that it kept conquering without him.Send me a text!Support the show