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Mongolian History. Mongolia RISE OF GHENGIS (Chinggis) KHAN After the
migration of the Jurchen, the Borjigin Mongols had emerged ...
... They are the National Museum of Mongolian History, The Victims of Persecution Memorial
Museum, the Natsagdorj Museum, and the Ulaan Bataar City Museum (Mayhew ...
... Mongolians. This battle is considered to be one of the greatest battles in
history in which the Mongolian invasion was put to an end. It ...
... A secondary story in both books is the resurrection of the Mongolian state after ...
except of course that Mongolians now have control of their history, a history ...
... Even the Kurdish language was banned, a fact unparalleled in history! ... the Kurds are
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RISE OF GHENGIS (Chinggis) KHAN
After the migration of the Jurchen, the Borjigin Mongols had emerged in central Mongolia as the leading clan of a loose federation. The principal Borjigin Mongol leader, Kabul Khan, began a series of raids into Jin in 1135. In 1162 (some historians say 1167), Temujin, the first son of Mongol chieftain Yesugei, and grandson of Kabul, was born. Yesugei, who was chief of the Kiyat subclan of the Borjigin Mongols, was killed by neighboring Tatars in 1175, when Temujin was only twelve years old. The Kiyat rejected the boy as their leader and chose one of his kin instead. Temujin and his immediate family were abandoned and apparently left to die in a semi-desert, mountainous region.
Temujin did not die, however. In a dramatic struggle described in The Secret History of the Mongols, Temujin, by the age of twenty, had become the leader of the Kiyat subclan and by 1196, the unquestioned chief of the Borjigin Mongols. Sixteen years of nearly constant warfare followed as Temujin consolidated his power north of the Gobi. Much of his early success was because of his first alliance, with the neighboring Kereit clan, and because of subsidies that he and the Kereit received from the Jin emperor in payment for punitive operations against Tatars and other tribes that threatened the northern frontiers of Jin. Jin by this time had become absorbed into the Chinese cultural system and was politically weak and increasingly subject to harassment by Western Xia, the Chinese, and finally the Mongols. Later Temujin broke with the Kereit, and, in a series of major campaigns, he defeated all the Mongol and Tatar tribes in the region from the Altai Mountains to Manchuria. In time Temujin emerged as the strongest chieftain among a number of contending leaders in a confederation of clan lineages. His principal opponents in this struggle had been the Naiman Mongols, and he selected Karakorum (west-southwest of modern...
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