Mongolempire

Mongol

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  • 1206

    Temujin gets title Genghis Khan

    Temujin becomes the ruler of the Ikh Mongol Uls at the kurultai, general assembly of the tribes, and assumes the name Genghis Khan, which means "universal leader." He institutes policies to support his soldiers rather than the aristocrats
  • Period: 1206 to 1368

    Mongol Empire

    The Mongol Empire also known as Ikh Mongol Uls, the Great Mongol State, was the largest empire in history.
  • 1207

    Genghis Khan expands empire.

    Khan attacks the kingdom of Xi Xia, and after two years he forces it to surrender.
    Genghis Khan then attacks Northern China under the Jin Dynasty, starting a war that lasts twenty years.
  • 1219

    Genghis Khan invades the Khwarzin Dynasty

    Khan leads an army of 200,000 Mongol soldiers against the Khwarzin Dynasty in response to the Khwarzin leader's refusal to cooperate. The Mongols invade every city they came across, killing or enslaving everyone they came across.
  • 1221

    The Pax Mongolica / Yassa begins

    The Mongols destroy the Khwarzin Dynasty, control their territories. Beginning of the Pax Mongolica, trade centers of China and Europe are connected under Mongol rule, allowing for safe passage.
    The Mongol law, Yassa, creates peace by forbidding blood feuds, adultery, theft, bearing false witness, and doing harm to the environment. Religious freedom is also allowed.
  • 1221

    The Mongols destroy the Tangut Dynasty of Xi Xia

    The Tangut Dynasty of Xi Xia refuses to lend military support going into open rebellion. Genghis Khan immediately takes his army to Xi Xia and begins a string of victories over the Tanguts.
    After victory, he orders the execution of the Tanguts, putting an end to their dynasty.
  • 1227

    Genghis Khan dies

    Genghis Khan dies soon after defeating the Tanguts. Before his death, he bestows leadership on his third son, Ogedei.
  • 1230

    War against the Jin Dynasty

    The Great Khan Ogedei leads army against the Jin Dynasty in China. Captures the Emperor Wanyan's capital city, Kaifeng. Three After the defeat, Ogdei orders the construction of the Tumen Amgalan Ord, the "Palace of Myriad Peace," and Karakorum becomes Mongol capital.
  • 1241

    Ogedei dies.

    Ogedei dies
  • 1246

    Guyuk is elected Great Khan

    Temuge, Batu allies with Guyuk and allows his forces to attend the kurultai, which elects Guyuk as the next Great Khan.
    He continues campaigns to expand into Song China, Iraq, and the Korean Peninsula.
  • 1248

    Mongke Khan succeeds as ruler

    ]Guyuk gathers troops to march westwards from Karakorum, but he dies before battle begins. His rival Batu calls a kurultai in his own territory, which his rivals refuse to attend, and he nominates Mongke, a grandson of Genghis Khan. This causes a division in the empire between the descendants of Ogedei on one side and Mongke and the descendants of Genghis's other son, Tolui. Mongke comes to power and institutes a bloody purge of the Ogedei line.
  • 1258

    Baghdad is captured

    Under the leadership of Hulagu Khan, Baghdad captured.
    Fall of the Abbasid Caliphate and opens the way for conquest into the Middle East.
  • Aug 11, 1259

    Mongke Khan dies

    Mongke Khan, leading an army to complete the invasion of China. Disease spreads among the army, and Mongke catches it and dies. Mongol forces are forced to withdraw from their wars to return for a new kurultai to decide on the succession
  • Aug 21, 1264

    Kublai Khan becomes the Great Khan

    Kublai Khan begin campaigns of conquest. He finally defeats the Song Dynasty in southern China and puts his own regime in place, called the Yuan
  • 1368

    Ming Dynasty reclaims China, Mongol Empire ends.

    After Kublai Khan, Mongols disintegrate into competing entities and lose influence. Ming Dynasty overthrows the Yuan, the Mongols' ruling power.