Mongols Timeline

  • Period: 900 to 1000

    Stirrups are brought into Mongol territory.

  • Period: 1100 to 1200

    Temujin created the Mongols.

  • 1200

    Mongols united under Temujin.

  • 1227

    Temujin dies.

  • Period: 1227 to 1279

    The Mongols attack China.

  • 1260

    Kublai, Temujin's grandson, became the Great Khan and moved the capital of China to Bejing.

  • 1271

    Kublai Khan created the Yuan Dynasty.

  • 1279

    The Mongols conquered the Song Dynasty.

  • 1279

    The remnants of the Song Dynasty are destroyed.

  • Joseph Fletcher Jr. rewrites the history of the Mongols using their sources.

  • Joseph Fletcher Jr. dies.