After Chinggis Khan’s death, his sons and grandsons took the empire he built and somehow made it even bigger. Imagine inheriting one-third of the planet and saying, “Yeah, but what if we took Europe too?”
His son Ögedei became the next Great Khan. Under him, the Mongols expanded westward with the enthusiasm of people on an endless road trip—only instead of stopping for snacks, they stopped to conquer cities.
