Bonus - Mongol 5: The Shaman
The History of China
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The Importance of Kinship in Genghis' Mongol Nation
Genghis' Mongol nation received its first major influx of such southern delights from the Uyghur tradesmen that made their way from the borders of the Taklamakan Desert far to the southwest. The Uyghurs had since the 1130s been a vassal people of the Khara-Khatan, a remnant of the old Khitan-Liao dynasty founded by Yelodashe in the 1120s. Accepting their caravans of southern goods as, and potentially as they'd been intended, a tribute of submission to the Great Khan, Jengus reached out and sought to make an alliance with them. He thereby offered his daughter
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