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The Mongolian empire starts to invade northern China which started their campaigns against other nations -
Genghis Khan unites all the Mongolian tribes and establishes the Mongolian empire -
The Xi Xia king allied himself with the Mongols to avoid being completely conquered -
A state in eastern Turkistan named Khara-Khitai was conquered and assimilated by the Mongol empire -
After Beijing fell to the Mongols all the territory north of the yellow river had been conquered -
The assassination of multiple Muslim people of the Mongol empire lead to Mongolia striking back against the sultanate of Khwārezm -
Bukhara, Samarkand, and the capital of Uzbekistan, Urgench were conquered by the Mongols but not before they were sacked, of course. -
While Mongolian troops were invading some of them stumbled into Russia and proceeded to sack some more cities. -
Sultanate of Khwārezm was defeated and the Mongols conquered their land -
Xi Xia refused to help the Mongols with exploring Khwārezm so the Mongols destroyed their irrigation system and sacked their villages -
Genghis Khan died in his bed which made the soldiers of the current campaign so volatile they nearly wiped out the Xi Xia culture. -
Genghis Khan's son Ögödei takes over the empire and expands it to the Caspian sea. -
One of Genghis Khan's grandsons named Batu lead multiple successful campaigns in Russia and sacked and burned their lands -
Ögödei died while drinking and all Mongolian leaders immediately dropped what they were doing to come back and pay their respects. Also to become the next great Khan. -
After the death of Ögödei, his widow took over to prevent infighting for the title of the great Khan which lasted for 4 years. Then her son Güyük becomes great Khan. -
Möngke takes over after his father Güyük dies and is the last Khan to rule from central Mongolia -
after much political infighting the lands that Genghis Khan conquered were split into multiple separate kingdoms -
after a failed invasion of Egypt the brother of Möngke, Kublai moves the capital of Mongolia to modern day Beijing, but he wanted to be an emperor rather then a great Khan so he started the Yuan dynasty and called himself a Chinese emperor. -
After so much war no one dared to mess with the Mongolian empire and it became a time of peace within the Mongolian empire -
The Yuan kingdom fell which marked the fall of all 4 major Mongolian kingdoms