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The eventual uniter of the nomadic Mongol tribes is born sometimes in the 1160's
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Genghis Khan was elected the strong ruler somewhere in the Gobi, from this point on, he dedicated himself to military conquest
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Genghis Khan died in 1227 and his empire was divided up and given to each of his sons
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The Mongols attacked the Persian empire in 1231 and defeated the Abbasids at Baghdad in 1258.
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The Mongols attacked the Song Dynasty in China. They encountered the use of gunpowder and the fire-lance.
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In 1279, Kublai Khan, one of Genghis Khan's grandsons, completed the conquest of the Song dynasty and established a new one, the Yuan Dynasty
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Zhu Yuanzhang put together an army and ended the Mongol dynasty and set up a new dynasty, the Ming.
