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Genghis Khan  Genghis Khan (ca. 1162 to 1227 A.D.), or Chingis
Khan, was the first great military leader of the Mongols, a
nomadic steppe people from Mongolia. He was born as Temujin,
into the Kiyan clan of the Borjigin dynasty, the ruling family
of the Mongol tribe.  The Mongol elite abandoned Temujin's
family when he was nine, after the rival Tatar clan poisoned his
father, who was one of the chiefs of the Kiyan. He along with
his brothers gathered followers and allied with his father's
ally, Ong Khan, the leader of the Kereyid tribe. In the 1190's
he had enough support among the Borjigin clans that they elected
him the fifth Khan of the Mongol, and he took the name Chingis
(meaning "Oceanic"), which came through Persian to English as
Genghis. Jamugha, a rival claimant to the Mongol leadership,
then gathered the neighboring tribes of Mongolia, the Tatar,
Kereyid, Naiman, and Merkid, into a series of wars against
Genghis Khan. He conquered them on