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In 1218, a Mongolian trade caravan of around 450 men arrived in Otrar, including an ambassador of Genghis Khan. The governor of Otrar, Inalchuq , who was an uncle of Sultan Muhammad II of the Khwarazmian Empire [ 5 ] accused them of being Mongolian spies and arrested them, [ 6 ] and with the assent of Sultan Muhammed, executed the entire caravan.
The conquests of Genghis Khan (r. 1206–1227) and his successors, spanning from Southeast Asia to Eastern Europe, effectively took over the Eastern world with the Western world. The Silk Road, connecting trade centres across Asia and Europe, came under the sole rule of the Mongol Empire. It was commonly said that "a maiden bearing a nugget of ...
The Silk Road [a] was a network of Asian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. [1] Spanning over 6,400 km (4,000 mi), it played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds.
Genghis Khan [a] (born Temüjin; c. 1162 – August 1227), also known as Chinggis Khan, [b] was the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire. After spending most of his life uniting the Mongol tribes , he launched a series of military campaigns , conquering large parts of China and Central Asia .
Bukhara was a part of the kingdom of Khwarazm Shahs, who incurred the wrath of the Mongols by killing their ambassador, and in 1220 the city was levelled by Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan besieged Bukhara for fifteen days in 1220. [21] According to Juvaini, after Genghis Khan took Bukhara "he contented himself with looting and slaughter only once ...
Mongol rider on the Yam (Postal) System. Diez Albums, SBB-PK, Diez A fol. 71, p. 28, no. 1. [1]Yam (Mongolian: Өртөө, romanized: Örtöö, lit. 'checkpoint') was a postal system or supply point route messenger system extensively used and expanded by Ögedei Khan and also used by subsequent great khans and khans.
The rise of the nomadic Mongol Empire disrupted East Asia, and under the leadership of leaders such as Genghis Khan, Subutai, and Kublai Khan brought the majority of East Asia under rule of a single state, with the exception of Japan and Taiwan. The Yuan dynasty attempted and failed to conquer Japan in two separate maritime invasions. The ...
The Hexi Corridor (/ h ə ˈ ʃ iː / hə-SHEE), [a] also known as the Gansu Corridor, is an important historical region located in the modern western Gansu province of China.It refers to a narrow stretch of traversable and relatively arable plain west of the Yellow River's Ordos Loop (hence the name Hexi, meaning 'west of the river'), flanked between the much more elevated and inhospitable ...