The news is announced to their mother and other siblings and the mother is heart-broken and infuriated at the same time. He and his brother, Kachiun create a plan to execute their greedy brother, and succeed. Temujin decides that this cannot go on any longer and he must kill Bekter before the entire family perishes. He discovers that Bekter is keeping food that he hunted away from the family. On their first few nights alone, there is a very scarce amount of food and the entire family is starving, except for Temujin’s elder brother, Bekter. During his youth, Temujin experiences many traumatic events such as when his father is raided and killed by another tribe, and when he is abandoned, as well as his family to perish in the deserted plains by one of the bondsmen of Yesugei, Eeluk who declares himself khan of the Wolves, deceiving Temujin and his brothers. Temujin, later on known as Genghis Khan, is the son to Yesugei, who is the leader of the nomadic tribe called the Wolves. How can our contemporary from the picture-perfect English countryside paint such a vivid portrait of the 13th century warrior, leader, and visionary? This compelling novel, written by Conn Iggulden is about the hardships and victories of Genghis Khan before he established the Mongol Empire. Margaret’s Episcopal School for their 7th grade English classes.Īre you a reader that craves books swarming you with deceit, ambition, ruthlessness, and palpable pain? Then Genghis: Birth of an Empire is a perfect read for you. And when he is weary, when he is wounded, he must face his own brothers in bloody civil war.This book review is part of series of reviews written by students at St. He must take his nation’s warriors to the ends of the known world. But to see it built, this scholar must first learn the art of war. Kublai dreams of an empire stretching from sea to sea. A new generation has arisen, yet the long shadow of the Great Khan still hangs over them all …

Instead, the vast Mongol nation is slowly losing ground, swallowed whole by their most ancient enemy.

It should have been a golden age, with an empire to dwarf the lands won by the mighty Genghis Khan.

An epic tale of a great and heroic mind his action-packed rule and how in conquering one-fifth of the world’s inhabited land, he changed the course of history forever.Ī scholar who conquered an empire larger than those of Alexander or Caesar.Ī warrior who would rule a fifth of the world with strength and wisdom.Ī man who betrayed a brother to protect a nation.įrom a young scholar to one of history’s most powerful warriors, Conqueror tells the story of Kublai Khan – an extraordinary man who should be remembered alongside Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte as one of the greatest conquerors the world has ever known. 1 bestselling author Conn Iggulden takes on the story of the mighty Kublai Khan.

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