By
Afghanland.com: Changez
Khan (Chang Chi Se Khan) was a strong man; he had gathered the
most ferocious and wild warriors under his
command. He was an uneducated man who only
knew his own town’s language all due to his
rough childhood growing up. Temujin as he was
known as a child lived in a wild town where
blood feuds between neighbors existed. His
mother was very beautiful and was carried by
his father to his village to be his wife. By
age 13 Temujin se his eyes to get married and
had picked a bride for himself. It was during
this courtship when the warring tribe poisoned
his father. With the death of his father their
clan had no leader and thus protector, two
thirds of the clan to seek the protection of a
stronger leader.
By
age 17 Temujin was growing strong, his
brothers and close male relatives were growing
up and ready to defend their clan. Amongst
these new young warriors only Temujin seemed
to have the charisma to be a leader and to
reward him, the neighbors and friends of his
father packed his horse with food and dowry to
go seek his wife.
According to
Afghanland.com sources, The
raiders had attacked the clan once more to
take their goods back to their own clan when
Changez’s new army stopped them. It was a
fierce
battle that lasted all day till it was
no light to see. 6 Thousand of the enemy had
fallen and Temujin successfully protected his
clan and won his first major victory. Many
battles passed and each time Temujin emerged
as the strongest leader of the area. During
one gathering in 1206, a soothsayer announced
that Teujin’s new name should be Changez Kha
Khan (the Greatest Ruler of the Empire of All
Men).
This
new title would encourage Changez to bring
more clans under his rule, and successfully
brought most of Mongolia and northern china
under his control and set his eyes westwards
towards central Asia and Afghanistan. This was
the time where
Maulana Jalaludin Balkhi Rumi
the great poet and Sufi master fearing the
Changez invasion of Afghanistan migrated to
Turkey at the age of 13.
In
1220 with a force of 200 thousand
warriors, Changez Khan invades central Asia
and Afghanistan. In Afghanistan Ghori and then
a weaker Sultan replaced the empire of
Sultan
Mahmood. Changez entered Afghanistan through
Balkh and without any resistance marched
towards Ghor. Less than a year later the
people of Afghanistan rose against Changez and
many battles in Balkh, Badkhshan and Takhar
area took place.
Changez Khan with enormous
army demolished the area of Balkh through
Hindukush. Bamian, Taliqan, Heart took arms
against Changez khan and within the next five
years Heart, Parwan and Ghazni joined the
battle against the invaders. His oldest son
Jochi while leading his army for battle in
Bamian province is killed in battle. To seek
revenge, Changez Khan’s
army slaughtered
and destroyed all buildings
and city structures of Afghanistan and all the
intellectuals of the area had moved out or
were killed. And within 20 years erased one of
the most advanced civilizations in the world.
Changez Died at age 72 in 1226. Hi body was
carried off to his homeland and buried under
the tallest tree in the Forrest. As the Forrest
grew there rose bigger tress and over time the
burial site was lost until recently where an American
excavation team claim to have discovered his burial
site. Changez khan had already converted to
Islam and began to change his ideology from
destruction to building. Changez Khan's sons
kept the empire alive and thus the
Mongol Empire in Afghanistan was born.
The Hazara's of Afghanistan are the direct
descendants of the Mongol invading army. The
Hazara DNA are a 70% match to that of the
Mongolians making them the most direct
decedents of Changez Khan outside of the
Mongolian nation. |