Legacy: Genghis Khan

Empire

Jack Davenport

History

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

After victory in China, Genghis Khan goes west and takes on the Khwarezmians, surprising his enemy with a daring assault. He conquers all in his path and now controls the biggest empire the world has ever seen. But whose shoulders are broad enough to become his successor? Listen to Goalhanger and Wondery's podcast, Legacy, as Afua Hirsch and Peter Frankopan explore the life of Genghis Khan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you want access to bonus episodes reading lists for every series of Empire, a chat community.
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0:30.4	Hello, Empirelessness. We are jumping in here because we'd love to tell you about one of our fellow
0:33.7	Gollhanger shows.
0:35.5	Legacy, hosted by historian Peter Frank Pat,
0:39.1	who once made memorable appearance on Empire telling Elita Off,
0:43.3	is on with the fabulous Afwa Hirsch,
0:45.4	who we must get on the show and have yet to get on.
0:47.7	Can I just say, yeah, Afwa's wonderful.
0:49.7	And I think Peter, if memory serves,
0:51.8	said you were talking nonsense.
0:53.4	He would never, he would never.
0:55.4	You know he would and has on numerous occasions.
0:59.7	This is an amazing podcast which delves into the lives of some of the most incredible people
1:04.1	to have ever lived and asks if they have the reputation they deserve.
1:08.5	And so far, they've covered some big ones, Cleopatra, Gorbachev,
1:12.6	Winston Churchill, absolute giants of history, whose legacy still impact us today. And there's
1:17.3	more to come. And this season, they're looking into the life of one of the most extraordinary
1:21.9	leaders of all time, Genghis Khan, the leader of the Mongol horde and the empire, which stretched from Eastern Europe
1:29.2	to the Sea of Japan, from Siberia to Southeast Asia. Mongol lands encompassed modern-day Korea,
1:35.6	China, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenian, Azerbaijan, parts of Iran, Iraq, Turkey,
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