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The Mongol Empire emerged as a major
power early in the 13th century. A
conglomeration of several Mongol
Tribes, notably the Hsiung-nu (the
Huns), Orkhon Turks and Uighurs, the
various clans were united by the
great Genghis Khan who ruthlessly
expanded his empire until his death
in 1227. At his death the Empire was
subdivided into various khanates, one
of which was the empire of Kubla
Khan. These various empires survived
in some form or another until the
14th century, when the conqueror
Timur, who claimed descendency from
Genghis himself, took the Persian and
Turkistan khanates, while the eastern
empires were largely subdued by the
conqueror Babur, who also claimed
descendency. Babur's empire later
became the Mogul Empire, but the true
Mongol empires faded away near the
end of the 14th century, and the once
mighty tribes separated ways and
returned to their old nomadic
existence.
The Mongol Empire's impact on
the Western world was as brief as it
was bloody, barely surviving for two
centuries. The Mongol tribe
themselves, after losing their
supremacy in the 15th century, were
later conquered by the Manchus. When
the Manchu, or Ch'ing, dynasty was
overthrown in 1912, the northernmost
Mongols formed their own country,
which is now known as Mongolia.
Still, approximately 3.5 million
continue to live in China, and
another 500,000 or so live in the
former Soviet Union.
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