Mongolia

Mongolia
Mongolia steppe country in northern Asia populated nomadic herdsmen
- Around 1206. chieftain Temujin unites the Mongol and Turkish tribes in the great alliance
- In 1215 the Mongols conquered China, creating a large state with a center in Beijing, Temujin becomes large kan Genghis Khan
- Until 1220, the Mongols in the west spread to the Black Sea and the Indian Ocean
- 1227 dies Genghis Khan and his great empire was divided into four Khanate
- Kanata: Ulus Grand Canal (China), Džagataj (Turkestan), Il-Khan (former Abbasid
Caliphate in Persia and Mesopotamia), the Golden Horde (today Russia)
- Mongols are progressing as big invincible cavalry, though brutal as warriors and
conquistadors, after winning some ground let locals to live by the old ways and the only thing you need is a regular payment of tribute
- 1240-43. Batu Khan with his Tartars plunder the Eastern Europe, from the Baltic to
Adriatic sea
- Mongol rule in Asia will bring two centuries of peace, culture and living proţimanja
trade relations between West and East, European merchants and missionaries go to
China (Franciscans, Marco Polo)
- Mongols were tolerant of all religions, however, in the XIV. century, most of them are
converted to Islam (except in the Mongolia, where Buddhism will prevail)
- In the XIV. century, China renewed independence under the Ming dynasty, and the Middle East
there is a new force - the Ottoman Turks, the Mongolian Kanata weak
- Timur Lenk, ruthless conqueror who from 1380 to 1405 temporarily restores single
Empire, the capital of Samarkand, the state is falling apart after his death
- Mughal Empire: the Indian subcontinent under the rule of Muslim dynasties
Mongol origin (Mongols conquered Delhi in 1398 and beyond Empire in the XVI. and XVII.
century Mughal state abolished the only Brits 1857).