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This is a timeline of Mongolian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Mongolia and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Mongolia .
The Mongol conquest of Persia and Mesopotamia comprised three Mongol campaigns against islamic states in the Middle East and Central Asia between 1219 and 1258. These campaigns led to the termination of the Khwarazmian Empire, the Nizari Ismaili state, and the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad, and the establishment of the Mongol Ilkhanate government in their place in Persia.
The following is an incomplete list of major wars fought by Mongolia, by Mongolian people or regular armies during periods when independent Mongolian states existed, from antiquity to the present day. The list gives the name, the date, combatants, and the result of these conflicts following this legend: Mongolian victory Mongolian defeat
Further, the Golden Horde, under Berke's leadership, was the first of the Mongol states to convert to Islam, [15] which lent to solidarity with the Islamic realms to the south. [18] On the other hand, the Il-Khan rulers were highly favourable to Christianity, and did not commit to Islam until 1295, when the Ilkhan Ghazan , a descendant of Tolui ...
For the Islamic world, the destruction of Khwarazmia left Iraq, Anatolia and Syria wide open. All three regions were eventually subjugated by future khans. Routes taken by Mongol invaders and Mongol successor khanates. The war with Khwarazmia also brought up the important question of succession.
The Mongol World Enterprise, 1206–1370 (London 1977) [ISBN missing] Hildinger, Erik. Warriors of the Steppe: A Military History of Central Asia, 500 B.C. to A.D. 1700 ; May, Timothy. The Mongol Conquests in World History (London: Reaktion Books, 2011) online review; excerpt and text search; Morgan, David. The Mongols (2nd ed. 2007) Rossabi ...
The main primary source is the Tarikh-i Jahangushay written by the historian Ata-Malik Juvayni, who was present in the campaign as an official under Hulegu.Juvayni has dedicated the concluding one-third of his history to this campaign, depicting it as the pinnacle of the Mongol conquest in the Muslim lands.
[52] 10,000 Khalkha Mongolian and Inner Mongolian cavalry (about 3,500 Inner Mongols) defeated 70,000 Chinese soldiers and controlled almost all of Inner Mongolia, but in 1914 the Mongolian army retreated due to lack of weapons. 400 Mongol soldiers and 3,795 Chinese soldiers died in this war.