# Ghengis Khan — The Crowd character guide

> Ghengis Khan in The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Ghengis Khan and Tamerlane, Tamerlane

**First appearance:** 0002-the-crowd

## Who they are

Conqueror used as an example of destructive crowd-led power.

## In the story

### [III: The Ideas, Reasoning Power, and Imagination of Crowds](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_crowd_se/chapters/iii-the-ideas-reasoning-power-and-imagination-of-crowds)

Mentioned as an example of the hecatombs caused by the promulgation of an idea, alongside Tamerlane.

### [The Ideas of Crowds](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_crowd_se/chapters/1-the-ideas-of-crowds)

Mentioned as a historical figure whose hecatombs were terrified by the scale of conflict resulting from the promulgation of an idea.

### [Fixed Beliefs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_crowd_se/chapters/1-fixed-beliefs)

Mentioned alongside Tiberius and Napoleon as a tyrant whose power is less profound than that of enduring beliefs.

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