Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1928, Page 125

oncorian Bovs Anp GiRLS OF THE 13™H CENTURY WERE _ LITERALLY "BORN AND RAISED IN THE SADDLE. - IN THIS PICTURE TwO BOYS ARE HIGH LIGHTS OF Bluring THE 3™ CENTURY WHILE THE CRUSADES OF EUROPEAN | ARMIES AGAINST THE TURKS WERE IN PROGRESS, ANOTHER | GREAT INVADING MOVEMENT BEGAN IN THE FAR EAST, AND FOR A TIME THREATGNED ToO ENGULF EASTERN EUROPE. THIS INVASION FROM THE EAST CAME FROM THE MONGOLS, A PRIMITIVE, NOMADIC PEOPLE THAT ROAMED ON HORSEBACK OVER THE VAST STEPPES OF ASIA. THE FIRST GREAT LEAPER OF THE MONGOLS WAS TEMUTINE, HiS FATHER, A POWERFUL TRIBAL CHIEF, DIED WHEM TGMUJINE WAS A BOY. R cMUIINE ESTABLISHED HIS capTAL AT THE ANCIENT CITY OF KARAKORM IN MONGOLIA, ASSUMED THE TFTLE OF JENGHIS KMAN" (" INFLEXIBLE LORD), AND PLANNED FURTHER CONQUESTS. &4 Euems RETURNED To KARAKORM LADEN WITH THE SPOILS OF THIE WEST (1225).TN A FEW YEARS HE HAD BUILT UP AN EMPIRE MORE EXTENSIVE THAN THAT OF ANCIENT ROME , L mu'm.TfimumuE GREW To MANHOOD, HI5 MOTHER, A WOMAN OF RARE COURAGE AND WISDOM RULED THE WILD MONGOL TRIBE THAT NUMBERED THIRTY THOUSAND FAMILIES, —— © Blu 1210 THE SULTAN OF KWARASMIA (A GREAT EMPIRE EXTENDING FROM INDIA TO THE CASPIAN SEA) BEHEADED A MONGOLIAN ENVOY TO SHOW HIS CONTEMPT FOR JENGHIS I<HAN . c— RULED OVER HIS VAST POSSESS- I0NS WISELY AND WELL . HE wAS TOLERANT O~ ALL RELIGIONS IN A DAY OF INTOLERANCE . BUPDHIST, MOSLEM,CHRISTIAN ALIKE RECEWED THE SAME FAIR TREATMIENT, —o Chapter CX: The Romance of Jenghis Khan. EMUIINE GREW UP To BE A BRAVE WARRIOR AND A SKILFUL CHIEFTAIN. IT WAS HIS WISH To MAKE HIS PEOPLE A GREAT NATION,AND UNPER MIS LEADERSHIP THE MONGOLS PROSPEREP AND GREW POWERFUL. . Eueu-us KHAN AT ONCE LED A GREAT HOST OF HORSEMEN ACROSS THE PAMIRS. TN A WHIRLWIND CAM- PAIGN HE CONQUERED KWARASMIA, AND ADDED IT TO HIS POMINIONS . =——© McClure Newspaper BI=nGHIS DIED 1IN 12277 WHILE ON A TOUR OF INSPECTION IN CHINA. H1S GRANDSON, BATU, MADE PLUNDERING RAIDS THROUGH RUSSIA, DEFEATED THE POLES AND GERMANS (1241) AND RAVAGED MUNGARY, — Bz race o ANOTHER LiT7i MONGOL!AN Boy Is HIDDEN IN THE Plctupe .. | EMumE UNITED THE SCATIERED TRIBES OF THIE WARLIKE MONGOLS AND TATARS, AND IN 1209 ATTACKED THE CHINESE- EMPIRE, THE MANCHU EMPEROR WAS OVERTHROWN, AND TEMUJINE MADE HIMSELFE MASTER OF NORTH CHINA. Beaciing mE CASPIAN, TIHE MONGOLS PRESSED ON To THE WEST, INVADED SOUTHERN RUSSIA - AND FORCED THE RUSSIANS TO SUBMIT TO THE RULE OF THE IKHAN. HE SUCCESSORS OF JENGHIS KHAN MADE PEKIN THEIR CAPITAL, THE EMPIRE FOUNDED BY TENGHIS SPLIT UP INTO FIVIE MONGOL STATES IN 1294, RUSSIA REMAINED UNDER THE SWAY OF THE MONGOLS UNTIL 1480. — @ If You Save This Page Each Week You Will Have a Complete History of Man.