Genghis Khan

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4 related events

1. 1
   1209 – 1227Mongol Conquest of Western Xiacommander

   Genghis Khan attacked the Tangut state of Western Xia several times, forcing its submission and finally destroying it in 1227. He died during this last campaign.

2. 1211 – 1234Mongol Conquest of the Jincommander

   Genghis Khan invaded the Jurchen Jin and overran northern China; Ögedei Khan, allied with the Southern Song, destroyed the Jin in 1234.

3. 2
   1215Fall of Zhongdumonarch

   The Mongols took Zhongdu (present-day Beijing), the Jin capital — after the Jin court had already moved south to Bianjing.

4. 3
   1219 – 1221Mongol Invasion of Khwarazmcommander

   After a Mongol caravan and envoys were killed at Otrar, Genghis Khan attacked the Khwarazmian Empire. Bukhara, Samarkand and the other great cities of Central Asia fell.

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People who appear alongside

• Ögedei Khan1186 – 1241

  Third son of Genghis Khan and second Great Khan, who destroyed the Jin, walled Karakorum and sent armies against Goryeo and Europe

• Muhammad II of Khwarazm1220

  Khwarazmian sultan whose killing of Mongol envoys provoked the Mongol invasion; he fled and died on an island in the Caspian Sea

• Jalal al-Din Mingburnu1231

  Last Khwarazmian sultan, defeated by Genghis Khan on the Indus in 1221; he escaped across the river and resisted for a decade

• Subutai1175 – 1248

  General of Genghis Khan and Ögedei, who with Jebe defeated the Rus at the Kalka and was the operational commander of Batu’s European campaign

Themes this person appears in

• Song, Ming and Samurai JapanAD 960 – 1500

  The age when the civil-minded Song bought peace from Liao, Western Xia and Jin while the lower Yangtze boomed and Neo-Confucianism took shape, and the Ming, having driven out the Yuan, rebuilt the East Asian order through imperial autocracy, the sea ban and tribute — as Japan passed through the Kamakura and Muromachi warrior governments into the Warring States era, and Korea from Goryeo to Joseon

• The Mongol Conquests1206 – 1294

  From the rise of Genghis Khan to the Yuan conquest of the Song — eighty years in which the Mongols swept Eurasia from Goryeo to Hungary