![]() ![]() ![]() He won victory after victory by revolutionizing warfare, using quick, agile units of cavalry to outmaneuver numerically superior but slower-moving opponents on the battlefield, and employing guile to lure them into traps. Įven more amazingly, Genghis Khan - whose name means "universal ruler" - conquered that vast expanse with an army of just 100,000 men. ![]() Over about a quarter of a century, Genghis Khan seized more territory - between 11 and 12 million square miles (28.5 million to 31 million square kilometers) - than the Romans did in 400 years. In the early 1200s C.E., he brought together all the nomadic tribes of Mongolia into one formidable force, and then led them on a campaign of conquest that built the largest empire in human history, a realm that stretched from the Balkans across Asia to Korea, and from India in the south to Siberia in the north. The real person depicted by the world's biggest equestrian statue, Mongol emperor Genghis Khan, was only slightly less fearsome in the flesh. Standing 131 feet (40 meters) tall and fashioned from 250 tons of stainless steel, the grandiose figure stares out into the distance with a cold, cruel expression, as if he is contemplating new lands beyond the horizon to conquer. Wolfgang Kaehler/Getty ImagesĪbout 34 miles (54 kilometers) outside Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia, an immense armor-clad warrior on horseback looms over the landscape. The Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue, part of the Genghis Khan Statue Complex on the Tuul River at Tsonjin Boldog, 34 miles east of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. ![]()
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