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Mongols
From 600-1400 AD
Term | Definition |
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Chinggis (Ghengis) Khan | Created a written language; a legal code; unified |
Pax Mongolica | Mongolian peace |
Kublai Khan | Conquered South China; created the Yuan dynasty; Supported agriculture, art, and religious institutions |
Ӧgӧdei | First tax system; first mongol capital; greatest expansion of mongol empire |
Decline | Noble Mongols tried to decide on a new great khan after Ӧgӧdei died |
Fragmantation (Four khanates) | Yuan Dynasty, Chagatai, Ilkhanate, Golden Horde |
Results of the decline | mongols were absorbed by the people they conquered |
Collapse of Yuan dynasty | Failed attempts to conquer Java and Japan |