Examples of Khan in the following topics:
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- The Rise of Kublai Khan and the the Mongol Invasions of China
- Genghis Khan united the Mongol and Turkic tribes of the steppes and became Great Khan in 1206.
- Möngke Khan succeeded Ögedei's son Güyük as Great Khan in 1251, and he granted his brother Kublai control over Mongol-held territories in China.
- Kublai convened a kurultai in Kaiping that elected him Great Khan, but a rival kurultai in Mongolia proclaimed Ariq Böke Great Khan, beginning a civil war.
- Instability troubled the early years of Kublai Khan's reign.
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- Kublai Khan came to power in 1260.
- Kublai Khan made significant reforms to existing institutions under the Yuan Dynasty.
- They met Kublai Khan and lived amongst his court to establish trade relations.
- Polo generally praised the wealth and extravagance of Khan and the Mongol Empire.
- A portrait of a young Kublai Khan by Anige, a Nepali artist in Kublai's court.
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- Before Genghis Khan
became the leader of Mongolia, he was known as Temujin.
- It was then that he
assumed the title of Genghis Khan, meaning universal leader, marking
the start of the Mongol Empire.
- Genghis Khan died in 1227 under mysterious circumstances in possession of one of the largest empires in history.
- Genghis Khan as portrayed in a 14th-century Yuan-era album.
- Outline the major
cultural contributions and complex role played by Genghis Khan in
the development of the Mongol Empire
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- Genghis Khan sent forces in every direction, including westward into central Asia.
- This alienated him from most of his people, creating ideal circumstances for a takeover by Genghis Khan.
- Genghis Khan sent a second group of ambassadors to meet the Shah himself instead of the governor.
- The third division under Genghis Khan and Tolui moved in from the northwest.
- Assess the factors in Genghis Khan's successful conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire and the Kara-Khitan
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- A result of the unification of Mongol and Turkic tribes, the empire took form under the leadership of the legendary Genghis Khan, also known as the Great Khan, meaning emperor.
- After Genghis Khan's death, the empire began to split as a result of wars between succession heirs.
- Genghis Khan encouraged trade during his reign as merchants provided both information about neighboring cultures and necessary goods that the Mongols didn't produce.
- The oldest surviving Mongolian work is "The Secret History of the Mongols," which was written for the royal family sometime after Genghis Khan's death in 1227.
- They include the proverbs attributed to Genghis Khan and the epics around the Khan's life.
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- She set the stage for the ascension of her son, Güyük, as Great Khan, and he would take control in 1246.
- He and Ögedei's nephew Batu Khan (both grandsons of Genghis Khan) fought bitterly for power; Güyük died in 1248 on the way to confront Batu.
- Another nephew of Ögedei's (and so a third grandson of Genghis Khan's), Möngke, then took the throne in 1251 with Batu's approval.
- Möngke's rule established some of the most consistent monetary and administrative policies since Genghis Khan.
- At the death of Genghis Khan in 1226, the empire was already large enough that one ruler could not oversee the administrative aspects of each region.
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- Under Genghis Khan and his son Ögedei, the Mongol Empire conquered both the Western Xia Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty to the west.
- At the time of the political rise of Genghis Khan in 1206 CE, the Mongol Empire shared its western borders with the Western Xia Dynasty of the Tanguts.
- Despite initial difficulties in capturing the Western Xia's well-defended cities, Genghis Khan forced their surrender with multiple siege battles in 1209 and 1210.
- Between 1232 CE and 1233 CE, Kaifeng fell to the Mongols under the reign of Genghis' third son, Ögedei Khan.
- These two regions were directly adjacent to Genghis Khan's newly unified Mongol territories in the late 12th and early 13th centuries.
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- Under the leadership of Ögedei Khan (r.1229–1241), Mongol forces conquered both the Jin dynasty and Western Xia dynasty.
- The Mongol leader Möngke Khan led a campaign against the Song in 1259, but died on August 11 during the Battle of Diaoyu Fortress in Chongqing.
- Although Hulagu was allied with Kublai Khan, his forces were unable to help in the assault against the Song due to Hulagu's war with the Golden Horde.
- Kublai Khan officially declared the creation of the Yuan dynasty in 1271.
- The former emperor would eventually be forced to commit suicide under the orders of Kublai's great-great grandson Gegeen Khan, who feared that Emperor Gong would stage a coup to restore his reign.
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- The empire unified the nomadic Mongol and Turkic tribes of historical Mongolia under the leadership of Genghis Khan, who was proclaimed ruler of all Mongols in 1206.
- It also ensured that it was easy to create an army in short time and gave the khans access to the daughters of local leaders.
- The grandchildren of Genghis Khan disputed whether the royal line should follow from his son and initial heir Ögedei or one of his other sons.
- After long rivalries and civil war, Kublai Khan took power in 1271 when he established the Yuan Dynasty, but civil war ensued again as he sought unsuccessfully to regain control of the followers of Genghis Khan's other descendants.
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- Kublai Khan promoted commercial, scientific, and cultural growth.
- Mongol rule was cosmopolitan under Kublai Khan.
- The Yuan dynasty under Kublai Khan issued paper money backed by silver, and again banknotes supplemented by cash and copper cash.
- The standardization of paper currency allowed the Yuan court to monetize taxes and reduce carrying costs of taxes in goods, as did the policy of Möngke Khan.
- Chagatai Khan Kebek renewed the coinage backed by silver reserves and created a unified monetary system throughout the realm.