MONGOL EMPIRE

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HUNS

• Advanced into China and Europe

TURKS

• Nomadic people
• Moved into Byzantine and Islamic territories

MONGOLS

• Spread across the Asian steppes
• Created an empire that stretched from China across Central Asia to Russia
• In less than a century, they built the largest land empire in history

TEMUJIN

• Was born in 1162 into a family with a tribal chief
• At the age 13 he succeeded. His father as a leader
• Became "lord of all the people dwelling in felt tents"
• Tribe also gave him the name " Chinggis Khan"
• Means universal ruler

KUBLAI KHAN

• Grandson of Chinggis Khan
• Completed a conquest for China that was started by Chinggis Khan
• Was the last of the Great Khans
• Conquered southern China
• Established the Mongol dynasty (the first foreign dynasty to rule all of China)

KUBLAI KHAN

• Built highways that facilitated trade and communication between China and part of Asia
• Welcomed scholars, missionaries, artists, merchants, and engineers to his capital

MARCO POLO

• Most famous European traveler to Mongol China
• Lived in China 17 years
• Many of the years he spent serving Kublai

THE YUAN DYNASTY IN CHINA

• The world empire that was founded by Khan, came to an end
• Mongols still ruled most of Asia

MING DYNASTY

• "Brilliant"
• Restored Chinese rule and reestablished Chinese ways

BATU KHAN

• Led the mongols into Europe.
• Between 1238 and 1242.
• Crushed the Russian defenses.

GOLD HORDE

• The strongest mongol state in Western Asia.
• The word horde comes from the ordu, which means camp.
• For two hundred fifty years, Russia remained under Golden Horde.

BABUR

• They called Babur "The Tiger"
• Chinggis Khan and Tamerlane were leaders of the Turkish-Mongol Tribe.
• He slaughtered or enslaved the Hindu inhabitants and establish the Mughal dynasty in 1526
• "Mughal"is the name given to the mongol in India.