How do later Mongol reflections on the yasa bring out the uneasy … - Vidyadip

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How do later Mongol reflections on the yasa bring out the uneasy relationship they had with the memory of Genghis Khan?

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The yasa (the code of law) was promulgated at the quriltai of 1206 by Genghis Khan.
The law codes dealt with customary traditions of the Mongol tribes, their administrative rules on the hunt, the army and the pastaI system.
However, by the middle of the thirteenth century, the Mongols had started treating the yasa as the 'legal code of Genghis Khan'.
They used these laws to hide their uneasy relationship with the memory of Genghis Khan's cruel killings in the past.
They also laid claim to a 'lawgiver' (Genghis Khan) like Moses and Solomon. They imposed these rules on their subjects.

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