Genghis Khan
Temujin unified the Mongols and opened the conquests. His death in 1227 did not end the project; his law and sons structured it.
Title
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Died
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Role
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Chinggis is a modern national icon in Mongolia and a villain in many city chronicles. Both are memory, not a scoreboard.
Kublai-via-Polo is the English portrait; Wonjong-via-Goryeo annals is the Korean one this atlas insists on pairing.
People
Ogedei Khan
Ogedei ran the China war and the 1230s-41 western explosion. His 1241 death stopped the European campaign as a political fact.
Reign
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Europe
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Capital
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Subutai
Subutai is the named operational mind of the western campaign in later military histories -- treat those histories as secondary, not as manuals.
Theatre
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Partner
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Fame
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Batu Khan
Batu held the western army and then the Kipchak steppe polity that taxed Rus' princes for generations.
Campaign
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Horde
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Rus'
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Hulagu Khan
Hulagu took Baghdad in 1258 and built a Persian-centred khanate. Ain Jalut marked his Levant limit after Mongke's death pulled forces back.
Baghdad
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Limit
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State
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Kublai Khan
Kublai finished Song China, declared the Yuan, and launched the failed Japan wars that burdened Goryeo. He is Polo's host in the English tale.
Yuan
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Japan
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Died
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Wonjong of Goryeo
Wonjong's era embodies submission-and-survival politics under Mongol power -- a Korean face for a Eurasian war.
Realm
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Bind
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Japan war
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Baybars
Baybars's Mamluk state held the Levant line after Ain Jalut -- the named limit-figure in the west-Asian story.
Battle
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State
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Role
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Debate
How many really died?
The live scholarly fight: high "world-historical" totals versus local downward revisions. This page keeps a wide band on purpose.
Terror policy or chronicle genre?
Both can be true: massacres happened; some numbers are literary. Neither reading is a how-to.
Film Genghises are almost useless as history and very useful as evidence of Western fantasy.
Japanese kamikaze shrine memory of 1281 erases Korean forced labour unless textbooks correct it.