Genghis Khan

or JENGHIS KHAN, (jain'gis-kahn,)a Tartar chief, B. 1164, after attaining to the command of a number of Mongol-Tartar tribes, invaded and took the N. pro vs. of China, 1215. Three years later, he carried his arms westward, destroyed Sam arc and and Bokhara, and reduced Persia to submi ion. D. 1227, after having sacrificed some 5,000,000 of human beings through his insatiable lust of conquest. [s. 400]