Genghis Khan’s Family Tree — The Empire After the Conqueror

How his sons and grandsons carved Eurasia into the largest land empire ever known.

INTRO — THE EMPIRE GENGHIS LEFT BEHIND

Genghis Khan built the greatest continuous land empire in world history —
but he didn’t live long enough to see its true size.

When he died in 1227, his children and grandchildren inherited:

• the most elite cavalry on earth

• a tax base spanning continents

• an intelligence network across Asia

• loyal generals

• limitless ambition

But they also inherited something dangerous:

A succession system with no clear rules.

Genghis never created a strict law for who should rule the empire.
The result?

A family that conquered half the world —
and then fought each other over it for generations.