What were the reasons of Genghis Khan's genocide?

Genghis Khan did no genocide. Genocide: The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. read more

Genghis Khan did no genocide. Genocide: The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. the definition of genocide. Genghis Khan never woke up someday and decided “hey, I wanna exterminate chinese people”. He indeed killed many people, but it wasn’t a genocide. read more

Genghis Khan, and his generals and successors, preferred to offer their enemies the chance to surrender without resistance in order to avoid war, to become vassals by sending tribute, accepting Mongol residents, and/or contributing troops. read more

(Readers of Tim Cope’s excellent 2011 book On the Trail of Genghis Khan will know that even for the 21st-century traveller on horseback the region is dangerous, arduous and topographically inhospitable.) In an environment that bred hard men, Genghis was the hardest of them all. read more

In 1219 Genghis Khan went to war against the Khwarezm Empire in present-day Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Iran. The sultan there had agreed to a trade treaty, but when the first caravan arrived its goods were stolen and its merchants were killed. The sultan then murdered some of Genghis Khan’s ambassadors. read more