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Regarding family matters, as part of his Great Law, he legitimized all the offspring of concubines in his empire, banned the abduction or enslavement of any Mongol, and abolished the custom of bride-price (paying a women's family to marry her). He also forbade adultery, with wife-swapping and having sex with the wives of one's kin apparently being common among steppe nomads of the region previously. He established a form of elected tribal monarchy, with the Great Khan being from then on elected via a tribal council or ''khuriltai''. | Regarding family matters, as part of his Great Law, he legitimized all the offspring of concubines in his empire, banned the abduction or enslavement of any Mongol, and abolished the custom of bride-price (paying a women's family to marry her). He also forbade adultery, with wife-swapping and having sex with the wives of one's kin apparently being common among steppe nomads of the region previously. He established a form of elected tribal monarchy, with the Great Khan being from then on elected via a tribal council or ''khuriltai''. | ||
While Genghis continues to have a reputation in Western countries as a notorious rapist and plunderer, there is actually scant historical evidence for this. Historians of the Mongol conquests frequently made use of the words "ravish" or "pillage", but it is not certain if they are referring to acts of mass rape. It is likely that rape occurred, but given the strict discipline of the Mongol forces, it has been argued that spontaneous acts of rape would have been frowned upon.<ref>https://amgalant.com/mongols-rape-and-popular-culture/</ref> | |||
==Conquests and massacres== | ==Conquests and massacres== | ||