Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series

Оглавление

Abbott Jacob. Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series

Chapter I. Pastoral Life in Asia

Chapter II. The Monguls

Chapter III. Yezonkai Khan

Chapter IV. The First Battle

Chapter V. Vang Khan

Chapter VI. Temujin in Exile

Chapter VII. Rupture With Vang Khan

Chapter VIII. Progress of the Quarrel

Chapter IX. The Death of Vang Khan

Chapter X. The Death of Yemuka

Chapter XI. Establishment of the Empire

Chapter XII. Dominions of Genghis Khan

Chapter XIII. Adventures of Prince Kushluk

Chapter XIV. Idikut

Chapter XV. The Story of Hujaku

Chapter XVI. Conquests in China

Chapter XVII. The Sultan Mohammed

Chapter XVIII. The War with the Sultan

Chapter XIX. The Fall of Bokhara

Chapter XX. Battles and Sieges

Chapter XXI. Death of the Sultan

Chapter XXII. Victorious Campaigns

Chapter XXIII. Grand Celebrations

Chapter XXIV. Conclusion

Отрывок из книги

There are four several methods by which the various communities into which the human race is divided obtain their subsistence from the productions of the earth, each of which leads to its own peculiar system of social organization, distinct in its leading characteristics from those of all the rest. Each tends to its own peculiar form of government, gives rise to its own manners and customs, and forms, in a word, a distinctive and characteristic type of life.

These methods are the following:

.....

The Monguls, like the ancient Jews, were divided into tribes, and these were subdivided into families; a family meaning in this connection not one household, but a large congeries of households, including all those that were of known relationship to each other. These groups of relatives had each its head, and the tribe to which they pertained had also its general head. There were, it is said, three sets of these tribes, forming three grand divisions of the Mongul people, each of which was ruled by its own khan; and then, to complete the system, there was the grand khan, who ruled over all.

A constitution of society like this almost always prevails in pastoral countries, and we shall see, on a little reflection, that it is natural that it should do so. In a country like ours, where the pursuits of men are so infinitely diversified, the descendants of different families become mingled together in the most promiscuous manner. The son of a farmer in one state goes off, as soon as he is of age, to some other state, to find a place among merchants or manufacturers, because he wishes to be a merchant or a manufacturer himself, while his father supplies his place on the farm perhaps by hiring a man who likes farming, and has come hundreds of miles in search of work. Thus the descendants of one American grandfather and grandmother will be found, after a lapse of a few years, scattered in every direction all over the land, and, indeed, sometimes all over the world.

.....