The Mongol Empire

Temüjin rises from an abandoned boy to Genghis Khan in 1206, organises the steppe into units of ten and a relay network, conquers northern China and Central Asia; his heirs reach Kyiv, Poland and Hungary, take Baghdad, build the largest contiguous land empire in history, split into four khanates, fail at sea against Japan, Đại Việt and Java, open the Silk Road under the Pax Mongolica, and fade as the Ming take China in 1368. Episode 09 of the World Empires series.

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