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A series of three books, with three more on the way,{{when}} by [[Conn Iggulden]] which tell the story of the Mongol Empire. So far, it includes:
* '''Wolf of the Plains''' (2007) ([[Market
* '''Lords of the Bow''' (2008): Having crushed the Tartars and united the Mongols into a single nation, Genghis Khan turns his attention to the tribes' traditional oppressors, the Xi Xia and Chin empires in what is now northern China.
* '''Bones of the Hills''' (2008): Xi Xia and Chin are under Mongol domination, but Genghis Khan's ambassadors to Khwarezm are tortured and killed. The Mongols move against the Arabs in revenge, and their armies reach as far west as Russia.
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* [[The Alliance]]: What the Mongol nation starts off as.
* [[Bilingual Backfire]]
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* [[Bring Me My Brown Pants]]: Borte wets herself when she realizes the Tartars are going to rape her. Again.
* [[Cain and Abel]]: Temujin and Bekter, Jochi and Chagatai
* [[Chocolate Baby]]: Jochi, possibly.▼
* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]: Killing one's enemies and raping their women is intentionally portrayed as honourable and good.
** The killing-one's-enemies part is still seen as honourable nowadays...
*** The exact extent of this trope depends on who you talk to.
** Codes of honor differ and the [[Hordes From the East]] even at their best would hardly have behaved like a fairy tale [[Knight in Shining Armor]]. Being able to [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]] without your enemy being able to do anything about it would likely have been considered a way to show off what a [[Badass]] [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Warrior]] you were by [[Take That|rubbing in your enemy's face]] what an incompetent [[Papa Wolf]] he was. They would likely have thought it "honorable". It was evil but unfortunately often times not only are [[Humans Are Warriors|humans warriors]], they are often [[Humans Are
* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: Genghis and Hoelun hit the airag pretty hard after {{spoiler|Temulun}} dies.
* [[Eyes of Gold]]: Genghis Khan, and all but one of his children.
* [[False Retreat]]: One of the Mongols' favourite tactics.
* [[Final Battle]]
* [[First
* [[Five
** [[The Hero]]: Temujin/Genghis
** [[The Lancer]]: Kachiun
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* [[Genghis Gambit]]: Fitting, since the real Genghis Khan is the [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Grim Up North]]: The Tartars seem to thrive in the frozen wastes of Siberia. Possibly the Mongols themselves to the Chin.
* [[Historical Hero Upgrade]]: Some of the Mongols' more horrible tactics, such as catapulting severed heads and the corpses of plague victims into cities, as well as Genghis Khan's rape of hundreds of women, are left out. The author does however mention habitual use of captured civilians (terrorized beyond all sanity by inventive executions and deadly forced marches) as living shields/cannon fodder when assaulting fortified cities
* [[Historical Villain Upgrade]]: The Tartars are responsible for a fair bit more of the crap in Temujin's early life than happened in reality.
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* [[Path of Inspiration]]: The shamanism as preached by Kokchu.
* [[Professional Killer]]: The Mongols go up against the historical Assassins.
* [[Rape
* [[Reassigned to Antarctica]]: Everybody as Yinchuan fort.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Genghis and Tsubodai do this to the Old Man of the Mountains.
* [[The Strategist]]: Tsubodai
* [[Take a Third Option]]: Can't break through the Great Wall of China? Unwilling to retreat? Send men over the even higher mountains.
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