All Episodes

Genghis Khan's Mongol Army: Discipline and Tactics

Genghis Khan's Last Campaign: The Tangut War and His Death

Genghis Khan's Blueprint: The Yassa and His Laws

Genghis Khan and the Uyghur Script: A Writing System for an Empire

Genghis Khan's Silk Road: The Spies Who Opened a World

Genghis Khan's Summer Retreat: The Secret of Avarga

Genghis Khan's Secret Capital: Avarga and the Rise of Empire

Genghis Khan's Daughters in Power: Alakhai and Checheyigen

Genghis Khan's Secret Weapon: The Mongol Composite Bow

The Secret History's Blind Spot: Genghis Khan's Daughters

Genghis Khan's Burial: The Secret Grave of an Emperor

Genghis Khan's Secret Army: The Kheshig, His Elite Guard

Genghis Khan's Spies: The Network Behind the Mongol Conquest

Genghis Khan and the Hunt: Training an Empire

The Death of Genghis Khan: How the Greatest Conqueror Was Buried

Genghis Khan's Secret Weapon: The Yam Postal System

The Mongol Horse: How a Small Steppe Pony Conquered the World

Genghis Khan and the Secret History of the Mongols

Muqali: Genghis Khan's Greatest General in China

The Battle of the Kalka River 1223: Mongols vs the Rus' Princes

Sorghaghtani Beki: The Woman Who Shaped the Mongol Empire

Yelü Chucai: The Khitan Scholar Who Tamed the Mongol Empire

Genghis Khan and the Shaman Who Challenged His Rule

Genghis Khan's Siege of Zhongdu: The Fall of the Jin Capital

Genghis Khan's Alphabet: The Uyghur Script That Wrote an Empire

Börte: Genghis Khan's Queen and Partner in Empire

Genghis Khan and the Fall of the Kara-Khitai

Genghis Khan and the Tangut: The Conquest of Xi Xia

Genghis Khan and Jamukha: Blood Brothers to Bitter Enemies

Genghis Khan and the Last Stand of Jalal al-Din at the Indus River

Genghis Khan and the Mongol Siege of Nishapur 1221

Genghis Khan's 1227 Death and the Secret Burial on Burkhan Khaldun

Genghis Khan's Yassa: The Mongol Code of Law That Ruled an Empire

Genghis Khan and the 1219 Invasion of the Khwarezmian Empire

Genghis Khan and the Persian Campaign of 1219: The First Mongol Invasion of the Islamic World

Genghis Khan's 1205 Siege of the Volga Bulgars

Genghis Khan's Subotai: The Dog of War Who Conquered the World

Genghis Khan's Spies and Scouts: The Steppe Intelligence Network

Genghis Khan and the Khwarezmian War: The Siege of Otrar 1218

Genghis Khan's 1211 Invasion of Jin China and the Battle of Yehuling

Genghis Khan and Jebe: The Arrow General Who Conquered the World

Genghis Khan's Steppe Horses: The Unsung Foundation of Empire

Genghis Khan's Secret Weapon: The Steppe Horse That Conquered the World

Genghis Khan's Failed Successor: The Rise and Fall of Tolui

Genghis Khan and the Siege of Zhongdu 1215

Genghis Khan's Inheritance: The Empire His Heirs Divided

Genghis Khan's 1206 Kurultai: The Coronation That Changed History

Genghis Khan and the Uyghur Script: How an Alphabet Shaped an Empire

Genghis Khan's Daughters: The Women Who Ruled the Mongol Empire

Genghis Khan's Daughter Alakhai: The Princess Who Ruled the Steppe

Genghis Khan's Blood Brotherhoods: Mongol Anda and Nökör

The Mongol Army's Secret Weapon: The Composite Bow That Conquered the World

Genghis Khan's Kheshig: The Imperial Guard That Built an Empire

Genghis Khan's Merchant Partners: The Ortogh System That Built an Empire

Genghis Khan's Yassa: The Lost Legal Code of the Mongol Empire

Genghis Khan's 1206 Kurultai: The Coronation That Changed History

Genghis Khan's Battle of Chakirmaut 1204: The Victory That United Mongolia

The Mongol Yam System: How Genghis Khan Built the World's First Global Postal Network

Genghis Khan's Mongol Justice: The Blood Price That Stopped the Steppe Feuds

Genghis Khan's Tumen: The Decisive Military Unit

Genghis Khan's Religion: How Tengri Shaped the Mongol Empire

Genghis Khan's Spies: The Steppe Intelligence Network

The Night the Mongols Burned Nishapur: Revenge in 1221

Genghis Khan's Battle of the Indus 1221

Genghis Khan's Last Campaign: The Xi Xia That Killed Him

The Mongol Siege of Urgench: Genghis Khan's Bloodiest Battle

Genghis Khan's Siege of Bamiyan: The Grandson Who Never Was

The Mongol Conquest of the Jin Dynasty: Genghis Khan's Other War

Genghis Khan and the Silk Road: How the Mongols United East and West

Genghis Khan's Töregene: The Empress Who Nearly Broke the Mongol Empire

Genghis Khan's Daughters: The Steppe Queens Who Ruled an Empire

The Secret History of Temüjin's Oath with Jamukha

Genghis Khan's Jamukha: The Blood Brother Who Became His Greatest Rival

Genghis Khan's Daughter Al-Altun: The Princess Who Wielded Power

Börte: The Empress Behind Genghis Khan's Throne

Genghis Khan's Kheshig: The Imperial Guard That Ruled an Empire

Genghis Khan's Mongol Armor: The Steppe Warrior's Hidden Advantage

Genghis Khan's Mongol Pluvials: How Climate Made the Conquests Possible

Genghis Khan's Code: The Yassa That Ruled an Empire

Genghis Khan's Weather: Drought and the Mongol Conquest of Central Asia

Genghis Khan's Yelü Chucai: The Confucian Who Civilized the Mongols

Genghis Khan's Army Organization: The Decimal System That Conquered the World

The Mongol Empire's Census: How Genghis Counted His People

Genghis Khan's Spy Network: The Yam and the Secret Intelligence That Built an Empire

Genghis Khan's Karakorum: The Capital That Held the Empire Together

Genghis Khan's Bactrian Camels: The Steppe Transport That Powered an Empire

Genghis Khan and the Khwarezmian Empire: The Spiral to War

Genghis Khan's Juvayni: The Persian Historian Who Witnessed the Mongol Conquest

Genghis Khan's Dogs of War: Subutai and the Greatest Cavalry Campaign

Genghis Khan's Secret Weapon: The Siege Engineers of the Steppe

Genghis Khan's Last Campaign: The Tangut War That Killed a Conqueror

Genghis Khan's Campaign Against the Jin Dynasty

Genghis Khan's Siege of Nishapur: Revenge and Mongol Military Strategy

Genghis Khan's Jebe: The Arrow Who Conquered an Empire

Genghis Khan's Trading Empire: The Ortogh Merchants

Genghis Khan's Falconers: Hunting with Eagles and Gyrfalcons

Genghis Khan's Daughters: The Empire-Building Queens History Forgot

Genghis Khan's Börte: The Empress Behind the Conqueror

Genghis Khan's Kheshig: The Bodyguard That Ruled an Empire

Genghis Khan's Mother: The Woman Who Raised an Empire

Genghis Khan's Religious Freedom: The Yassa That Tolerated All Faiths

Genghis Khan and the Khitan Who Showed Him How to Rule

Genghis Khan and the Tatar Campaign: The Massacre That Shaped an Empire

Genghis Khan's Brothers: The Price of Kinship and Power

Genghis Khan and the Mongol Conquest of the Naimans

The Mongol Siege of Baghdad 1258: Hulagu's Conquest

Genghis Khan's Mongol Peace: The Silk Road Under One Law

Genghis Khan's Secret Weapon: The Mongol Postal System

Genghis Khan's Mongol Horses: The Steppe War Machine

Genghis Khan's Battle of Parwan: The Mongol Empire's Only Defeat

Genghis Khan's Yassa Code That United an Empire

Genghis Khan's Nerge: The Epic Steppe Hunt That Built His Army

Genghis Khan's Death: Was It the Most Important Event in Mongol History

Genghis Khan's Daughters: The Mongol Princesses Who Ruled the Empire

Genghis Khan's Nokor: The Bond That Built an Empire

Genghis Khan's Kheshig: The Emperor's Personal Guard

Genghis Khan's War with the Jin Dynasty: The Great Wall Breached

Genghis Khan's Mongol Army: The Tumen System of War

Genghis Khan's Environmental Legacy: The Little Ice Age

Genghis Khan's Juvayni: The Persian Historian Who Chronicled the Mongol Empire

Genghis Khan's Spies: The Mongol Intelligence Network

Genghis Khan and the Mongol Siege of Nishapur

Genghis Khan's Adoption of the Uyghur Script

Genghis Khan's Mongol Empire: The Ortoq Merchant System Fueled Conquest

Genghis Khan's Mongol Religion: Tengri and the Eternal Blue Sky

Genghis Khan and the Mongol Conquest of the Kara-Khitai

Genghis Khan and the Silk Road: How Mongol Rule Revived Ancient Trade Routes

Genghis Khan's Merchants: How the Ortoq System Financed an Empire

Genghis Khan's Mongolian Steppe Childhood and Rise to Power

Genghis Khan and the Bloody End of the Khwarezmian Empire

Genghis Khan and the Mongol Siege of Baghdad 1258

Genghis Khan's Yassa: The Law Code That United the Mongol Empire

The Mongke Khan Census: Counting the World's Largest Empire

Genghis Khan's Last Campaign: The Mystery of the Tangut Queen

Genghis Khan's Mongol Army Logistics: How They Fed an Empire on the Move

Genghis Khan's Ortoq: How Mongol Merchants Financed an Empire

Genghis Khan's Daughter Who Defied the Mongol Empire

Genghis Khan's Secret Weapon: The Kheshig Bodyguard

Genghis Khan's Commander Jebe: The Arrow That Conquered Empires

Genghis Khan's Military Innovation: The Mongol Tumen System

Genghis Khan's Battle of Badger's Mouth: The Mongol Strategy That Shattered the Jin

Genghis Khan's Siege of Bukhara: Bluff, Fire and Fragmentation

Genghis Khan's Spies and the Mongol Intelligence Network

Genghis Khan's Mongol Siege of Nishapur: Revenge and Ruin

Genghis Khan and the Art of Mongol Siege Warfare

Genghis Khan's Commander Muqali: The Left Hand of the Empire

Genghis Khan's Mongol Army Siege Tactics at the Battle of Zhongdu

Genghis Khan's Mongol Bow: The Weapon That Conquered the World

Genghis Khan's Religious Tolerance Policy

Genghis Khan’s Conquest of the Naiman and the Rise of the Mongol Script

Genghis Khan and the Mongol Tumen: The Decisive Battle of Yehuling

Genghis Khan's Economic Revolution

Genghis Khan's Daughter: Princess Alakhai Bekhi the Ruler

Genghis Khan's Secret Daughter: The Princess Who Ruled the Silk Road

Genghis Khan's Yasa and the Mongol Postal Relay

Genghis Khan's Paper Empire: How the Mongols Used Chinese Bureaucracy

Genghis Khan's Yasa and the Mongol Postal Relay

Genghis Khan's Secret Weapon: The Kheshig

Genghis Khan's Tangled Succession: Why the Empire Fractured

Genghis Khan's Environmental Legacy: How the Mongols Changed the Climate

Genghis Khan's Daughters: The Women Who Ruled the Steppe

Genghis Khan's Mongol Campaign Against the Khwarezmian Empire

Genghis Khan's Last Campaign: The Tangut Mystery

Genghis Khan's Nokor System: Bonds Forged in Blood

Genghis Khan's Spies and the Silk Road Intelligence Network

Genghis Khan and the Yassa Law Code

The Mongol Siege of Baghdad: Hulagu's Conquest of the Abbasid Caliphate

Genghis Khan's Secret Daughter: The Princess Who Ruled the Silk Road

Genghis Khan's Daughters: The Women Who Ruled the Steppe

Genghis Khan's Siege of Zhongdu

Genghis Khan and the Siege Engineers Who Conquered China

Genghis Khan's Mongol Composite Bow: The Weapon That Conquered the World

Genghis Khan's Steppe Army: The Tumen System That Conquered Asia

Genghis Khan's Baljuna Covenant: The Oath That Forged an Empire

Genghis Khan's Steppe Diplomacy: The Alliance with the Kereyid

Genghis Khan's Ortoq Partnerships: Merchants of the Mongol Empire

Genghis Khan's Secret Weapon: The Mongol Subotai Campaign

Genghis Khan and the Mongol Yam Postal System

Genghis Khan's Innovations in Military Logistics and Communication