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According to legend his birth was auspicious because he was holding a blood clot in his hand when he came into this world. He is also said to have divine origins because his first ancestor was the gray wolf.
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When he was 9 his family lived in extreme poverty because they were abandoned by the clan when the leader Yesugei was poisoned.
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He formed powerful allies and had a strategy to stop any thought of rebellion by making sure there were no enemies to oppose him. Before attacking China he would first make sure no nomad leader survived to stab him in the back.
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He was not ruthless just to be cruel he intended to leave no one alive from the old rival aristocrats who might try to build a resistance.
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He was accepted as the emperor of all the Steppe people he was suppose to distribute thousands of people to his own relatives replacing the existing patterns of tribes, and clans.
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The break with Jamuka brought up a problem with the mongol world that could only be resolved with the disappearance of one or the other rival.
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His friendship with Jamuka helped him gain supremacy in the Steppes it only lasted a year and a half the Genghis Khan's wife said they needed to go there separate ways.
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Genghis Khans' army fell upon the Jin empire of northern China
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He allowed himself to be bought off temporarily with a huge amount of booty but resumed his attack and took Beijing a year later.
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A year before he died he started his final campaign against the xixia.
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He died on August 18, 1227
