Should Genghis Khan Be In Dante's Inferno

Genghis Khan was so ruthless that he would sometimes kill all adult males to remove potential rivals and breakdown old loyalties to other clans or tribes. When conquering China, the Mongols burned cites to the ground and killed all of their inhabitants. The ruthless nature of Genghis Khan was well known throughout Asia and Europe; therefore, many so greatly feared the Mongols that they surrendered without a single battle (Exploring the Middle Ages 305-306). The Mongols were known to attack one day, and have the entire city slaughtered the next. When the Mongols fought against the Khwarezm Empire, and they didn’t keep their word, Genghis Khan slaughtered city after city of theirs’.

Genghis Khan was a military and political leader, a father, and a tyrant or a hero depending on which side of the battle you were on. By the time Genghis Khan died you could fit four Roman Empires within the Mongolian border. He became strong because of the hardships and experiences of his childhood. He transformed the Mongolian tribes into a country much like the Persian wars united the Greek city states into Greece.

While Dante may have geographically misplaced these two groups of sinners, he did correctly punish most of the sinners in Hell. For example, "the river of blood - in which boils everyone / Whose violence hurt others" (Canto XII 41-42) describes the perfect punishment for those who were violent while they were alive. The degree of the violence committed also factors into the punishment. Tyrants who slaughtered many people are completely covered in boiling blood, while those who were violent against only a few suffer with blood up to their torsos. This is the perfect punishment because violence is a crime of

In document 1 Genghis khan conquered over 4 million square miles. This took place during the mongol empire and under genghis khan's rule. From Budda to korea that is about 500,000 miles across the land. They mongols conquered the most land in history and they conquered the most societies in history. The mongols split the land up into four main khanates with four different rulers but genghis khan was the most powerful and the ruler of all four of the khanates.The mongols were very barbaric like the barbarians maybe even more

His clans were so powerful and knew just what to do to conquer. Genghis Khan started strong in North China and Ancient Persia. “Slaughter was so great that the streets of the Chinese capital were greasy with human fat and flesh”.

Unsurprisingly, Genghis Khan’s empire would conquer land by one of many treacherous methods: destroying anything in their path. According to Document A, over 4,860,000

The Mongols were history’s strongest and biggest empire that ever lived. The most powerful emperor was Genghis Khan who conquered over 4 million square miles of land. By the peak of the conquest, the Mongols had land from Korea to Poland and from Vietnam to Syria. There is no doubt that the Mongols were Barbaric. The Mongols focused more on making alliances and invading land than on educating their people.

One of the greatest rulers, Genghis Khan, had a dramatic impact on history due to his brutal leadership and military tactics. He was a vicious ruler who successfully conquered and expanded his empire. “Genghis Khan was a warrior and ruler of genius who, starting from obscure and insignificant beginnings, brought all the nomadic tribes of Mongolia under the rule of himself and his family in a rigidly disciplined military state” (Bawden, 2017). Genghis Khan’s military armies swept through most of Asia’s powerful civilizations leading to the spread of Mongolian teachings. He brutally conquered areas by killing any opposing civilizations. However, he forced no religion on the conquered, which allowed the spread of new religions across the continent. With these new religions, new ways of thinking, learning, and teaching developed. Once Genghis Khan

In complete contrast to this, the Christian Hell is a place of punishment for crimes committed on Earth. There are tons of depictions of Hell across tons of books, movies, and TV shows, but the most widely accepted version of damnation comes from the writer Dante Alighieri, in his world famous title Dante’s Inferno. Alighieri described Hell as a sort of giant funnel, with seven layers on the inside, representing the seven deadly sins, and in Inferno, he and Virgil Maro traverse these layers, and battle their inner demons, while also witnessing the cruel, and ironic torture of those sent to this unholy plain of existence. For example those who were wrathfully in life find themselves trapped in the filthy slime of the Styx, violently beating each other for all of eternity, while those who were sullen in life are drowned just underneath the river, and stepped on by the wrathful. The Buddhist realm of the damned, Naraka, is the most similar to Dante’s Hell, but unlike the Inferno, Naraka is less a place of eternal suffering, and more a place of

Robert Herrick, an English poet, once said, “Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.” Picture any type of Hell with relief, happiness, or even the smallest crack of a smile. There is no place. In fact, one can only think of the complete opposite, whether it is a Hell filled with neglect, pain, disgust, or a never-ending life of horror. This is the place created by Dante Alighieri; The Inferno is exactly the type of Hell where no person would want to be. Even those who acted upon the lightest of sins suffered greatly. While each realm contained a different sinner, the punishment that each were forced to face was cruel, repulsive, and sometimes rather disgusting. Through grieving tears without an

As the Mongols expanded their empire across Asia and Europe, A vast number of people from many different cultures and religions were now under the rule of Genghis Khan. Khan was accepting of his people’s beliefs and allowed them to

Inferno, the first part of Divina Commedia, or the Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri, is the story of a man's journey through Hell and the observance of punishments incurred as a result of the committance of sin. In all cases the severity of the punishment, and the punishment itself, has a direct correlation to the sin committed. The punishments are fitting in that they are symbolic of the actual sin; in other words, "They got what they wanted." (Literature of the Western World, p.1409) According to Dante, Hell has two divisions: Upper Hell, devoted to those who perpetrated sins of incontinence, and Lower Hell, devoted to those who perpetrated sins of malice. The

Dante’s Inferno is an epic poem that is clearly centered on his hate for Pope Boniface VIII. Dante’s “circles of hell” described so vividly in his poem are the result of Dante’s angst toward Boniface as he was once on top of the world until Boniface exiled him only because of his political opinions. Although, he does not clearly name Boniface in the epic he makes sure to include him in five obscure allusions. The first instance alludes to the incumbent pope before Boniface, Pope Celestine V, as the one “who made the great refusal” in the circle of neutrals; as he allowed Boniface to plant seeds of doubt in the months before he suddenly and unexpectedly resigned, leaving Boniface the Pope. The second allusion would place Boniface perfectly in the eighth circle, sixth pouch as the fraudulent sinner he was to prey on Celestine with his utter gift of fraudulent gab to gain a political position of power. The third, fourth, and fifth instances all point to his questionable practice of selling indulgences or absolution. So, therefore, just because he cannot directly mention Boniface in his epic due to him still being alive during the time of his writing, he still manages to make it a point to let him know there is a place for him in Hell.

“The Christian church … conceived of hell as a place where the good were separate from the evil, and the deeds on earth were weighed and judges.”(Bondanella XXXIII) Hell is a place that was created as a punishment for those people who died with mortal sins and did not ask for forgiveness. In this case Dante’s hell in the Inferno is divided into three sections and nine circles. These circles within hell were based off of the seven deadly sins: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride. Along with the seven deadly sins Dante’s Catholic religion also influenced him in his choices about who to put and where to put people in Hell. According to his beliefs, if you were not a Christian, you automatically went to Hell. (Trotter) As well even though Dante's hell affected all people no matter their religion, the representation of how Hell

As Dante travels deeper into the pit of hell he finds much more horrific places which climaxes in the fourth ring of the ninth circle, Judecca the lowest part, of hell were people go who betrayed their benefactors. These people spend eternity completely