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Mongol Conquests

Years: 1206 - 1337

Mongol invasions progress throughout the 13th century, resulting in the vast Mongol Empire which covers much of Asia and Eastern Europe by 1300.

Historians regard the Mongol raids and invasions as some of the deadliest conflicts in human history.The Mongol Empire emerges in the course of the 13th century by a series of conquests and invasions throughout Central and Western Asia, reaching Eastern Europe by the 1240s.

The speed and extent of territorial expansion parallels the Hunnic/Turkic conquests of the Migration period (the 6th century Turkic Khaganate).The territorial gains of the Mongols persist into the 14th century in China (Yuan Dynasty), into the 15th century in Persia (Timurid dynasty) and in Russia (Tatar and Mongol raids against Russian states), and into the 19th century in India (the Mughal Empire).

"Remember that the people you are following didn’t know the end of their own story. So they were going forward day by day, pushed and jostled by circumstances, doing the best they could, but walking in the dark, essentially."

—Hilary Mantel, AP interview (2009)