• Genghis Khan (c. 1162–1227)
• Conquests in Eastern Europe (1227–41)
• Words to Know: The Mongols
• A shift to Southwest Asia (1241–60)
• Kublai Khan (1215–1294)
• Tamerlane and the end of the Mongols (1294–c. 1500)
• Georgia and the Mongols
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The Middle Ages in Europe and the Middle East were marked by three invasions of nomads from Central Asia: first the Huns, then the Turks, and finally the Mongols. The Mongols would conquer the largest empire of all, a vast realm that stretched from the Korean Peninsula to the outskirts of...