World History › Section L · The Mongol Empire › Topic L.2
Chinggis Khan and the early Mongol Empire
In 1206 the steppe tribes acclaimed Temujin as Chinggis Khan. Within fifty years his armies and those of his sons and grandsons had conquered lands from Korea to the Rus principalities and raided as far as Hungary. This topic asks how they did it, how they ruled, and why the people who lived through the conquests remembered them so differently.
In this topic
- The kurultai of 1206
- A new order for the steppe
- First conquests: Xi Xia, Jin and the Kara Khitai
- Worked example: from Otrar to the fall of Khwarazm
- How the Mongols won
- The death of Chinggis and his sons' shares
- Ogedei builds an empire
- The western campaign, 1236-1242
- Worked example: two Muslim views of the conquests
- Regents, rivals and Mongke
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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