Editing Genghis motherfucking Khan (section)

==End of an Empire==

After years of civil war and succession issues, the empire was divided into four giant segments in the late 13th century between his four sons Ögedei, Tolui, Jochu, and [[Jaghatai Khan|Chagatai]]. These separate Khanates would later fragment and dissolve by the 16th and 17th centuries, the great Mongol Empire of Chinggis never to return. The closest the successors of Chinggis ever came to recreating his empire was his great-great-grandson Timur (Tamerlame) in the late 14th century, who ran around central Asia kicking ass left and right and not giving a single damn who stood in his way. Genghis Khan's descendants and successor kingdoms tended to pop up again and again throughout history; with Hulagu Khan laying siege to and utterly razing Baghdad in 1258, Yonten Gyatso (a descendant of Kublai) becoming the 4th Dalai Lama and Ablai Khan in the late 18th century uniting much of Central Asia into what is now modern-day Kazakhstan. For centuries after his conquest, royalty from Mughal Emperors to Czars of Russia could possibly relate to Chinggis in some way.