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Posted on 01/10/2005 7:58:39 PM PST by LaDivaLoca
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Great to a hear from you Sarge!
Great to hear from you, Sarge! Take care! You & you "boys" are in our thoughts & parayers!
Morning Sarge. Tornadoes?
Morning Unc.
Laurita,
I wonder if what I understand is really what I understand sometimes.
So. it all works out in the end!
Did you say "LICE"??????
Later Big Head ; )
CG
A late Good Morning, Pusterfuss!
Guess who's telling everyone to look for the Canteen thread?
Thanks for posting this every day.
God Bless you Kathy while He watches over the troops.
Good morning, Old Sarge. How's it going?
Good Morning, tomkow, Sir!
... and how much smaller would they be in a rear view mirror?
That's just plain weird, JJ.
Why are weather reports always in shouting mode.
Does one guy with a crappy
keyboard pound these things out?
Stay safe, tomkow.
Do I look fat in this?
After 30 years of marriage, (I know, I know. "Who could put up with Shag for that long?") I learned to never answer loaded questions.
My answer is always, "If you have to ask..."
or my favorite,
"Oh, that reminds me, Weight Watchers called yesterday."
I think you are the first person to tomkow as "Sir".
Now he is going to think he's important and try to run the place.
Maybe just a bite before the catfish are ready.
Thanks, Arrowhead!
That's more like it! Thanks Beachy, now I can officially start my day.
The Mongols ~ Hot drinks and chow with Tonk ~ Bump!
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Now with a larger following and the help of Togrul and the Chin (a large civilization in northern China), Temuchin was able to defeat the Tartars and avenge his father’s death (Nicolle 18). Temuchin continued to build power by removing rivals (Nicolle 18-19). Deals were struck with most Mongol chieftains giving them leadership roles and wives (Humphrey 47). These chiefs who would not serve under other chiefs were willing to serve under the dominating Temuchin (Humphrey 47). Eventually Jamuga became Temuchin’s primary rival allying with Temuchin’s enemies in a series of campaigns which came to include even Togrul and the Kereits (Nicolle 19). Using superior political and military skill, Temuchin defeated and integrated all opposing Mongol tribes (Marshall 28-32). By 1206 Temuchin led more than two million people and ruled land stretching a 1000 miles from west to east and 600 miles from Siberia in the north to the Gobi Desert in the south (Humphrey 57, 63). Temuchin’s followers, while still nomadic, were now united behind their leader and considered themselves one nation of Mongols (Humphrey 59). Temuchin took the name Genghis which appropriately meant universal leader (USA Today 1). 
Having created a nation Genghis now looked to build an empire (Humphrey 77-78). During his lifetime Genghis conquered Hsi Hsia a southwestern border country of Mongolia, the Chin empire of north China, and (after being provoked by the massacre of a trade caravan and subsequent murder of his ambassador) the medieval Muslim kingdom of Khwarezm (Marshall 42-57). Genghis was able to consistently defeat larger forces by using ruthless military strategies which are well-known and innovative military strategies which should be well known (Marshall 37-57). Genghis’ highly disciplined troops were equally capable of slaughtering civilians whose armies refused to surrender and mastering the advanced methods required to capture fortified cities (Humphrey 82-83). Well supplied and constantly drilled in war games, the Mongolian men were always prepared for war (Humphrey 68). In the field of battle Genghis maintained close communications with commanders using swift "arrow messengers, signal flags, and fire (Humphrey 79-78). The entire army moved and attacked on horseback and there were always one or two fresh horses available for each man (Humphrey 65). Combined with other tactics, the incredible mobility of Genghis’ forces (which was probably not matched until the German blitzkrieg of WWII) always gave him the advantage of surprise (Humphrey 67-68). 
Most of the Western world views Genghis Khan as a simple savage who overwhelmed others by brute force (Marshall 64). However, Genghis was a cunning warrior, a superb motivator, an organized leader, and a wise ruler who valued loyalty, education, strict laws, and the exchange of knowledge and goods with other cultures. Genghis created Mongolia and established an empire that reached from the Pacific Ocean to the Black Sea and from Siberia to Tibet (USA Today 1). Genghis died in 1227 but the structure and tradition the great leader established did not (Nicolle 46-47). Descendants were well positioned to expand Genghis Khan’s Mongol Empire from the Pacific to the Danube and from Siberia to the Indian Ocean, an area in which half the population of the world then lived (Humphrey 107). It took a genius, not a savage, to accomplish this.