Emperor Wu consolidated and extended the Chinese empire by pushing back the Xiongnu into the steppes of modern Inner Mongolia, wresting from them the modern areas of Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai.

In Inner Mongolia, China, the Daur people have been playing Beikou a game with some similarities to field hockey for about 1, 000 years.

In Egypt, 4000-year-old carvings feature teams with sticks and a projectile, hurling dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland, and there is a depiction from c. 600 BC in Ancient Greece where the game may have been called kerētízein or kerhtízein ( κερητίζειν ) because it was played with a horn or horn-like stick ( kéras, κέρας ) In Inner Mongolia, China, the Daur people have been playing beikou, a game similar to modern field hockey, for about 1, 000 years.

In China, ethnic Mongols can be found mainly in the central north region of China such as Inner Mongolia ( a smaller number of Mongols can also be found in Xinjiang in northwest China ).

The Donghu are mentioned by Sima Qian as already existing in Inner Mongolia north of the state of Yan in 699-632 BC.

Geographically the Tuoba Xianbei ruled Inner Mongolia and northern China, the Nirun ( Yujiulu Shelun was the first to use the title Khagan in 402 ) ruled Outer Mongolia, the Khitan were concentrated in Southern Manchuria north of Korea and the Shiwei were located to the north of the Khitan.

Today, people of Mongol origin live in modern state of Mongolia, China ( mainly Inner Mongolia ), Russia, and a few other Central Asian countries.

Most of them live in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, followed by Liaoning province.

In the northeast, border friction with the Soviet Union produced a tense situation in remote regions of Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang along segments of the Argun River, Amur River, and Ussuri River.

File: Spring Sandstorm Scours China. jpg | The first day of spring 2010 brought a massive sandstorm blowing from Inner Mongolia

Biston betularia is found in China ( Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Fujian, Sichuan, Yunnan,

Qing China reached its largest extent during the 18th century, when it ruled China proper as well as Manchuria ( Northeast China ), Inner Mongolia, Outer Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet, at approximately 13 million km < sup > 2 </ sup > in size.

By the mid-18th century, the Qing had successfully put outer regions such as Inner and Outer Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang under its control.

The Qing Dynasty started colonizing Manchuria with Han Chinese later on in the dynasty's rule, but the Manchu area was still separated from modern-day Inner Mongolia by the Outer Willow Palisade, which kept the Manchu and the Mongols in the area separate.

In the 1930s, Japan gained significant influence in Inner Mongolia and Manchuria after it invaded Manchuria.

It established Manchukuo, a puppet state in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia.

However, the Soviet threat of seizing parts of Inner Mongolia induced China to recognize Outer Mongolia's independence, provided that a referendum was held.

Beijing also recognised Tokyo's authority over southern Manchuria and the eastern part of modern-day Inner Mongolia.

After years of Japanese control of Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia, war broke out between Japan and China in 1937 in the Marco Polo Bridge Incident.

It broadly supported the Chinese Republic over the creation of Manchukuo in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia.

A second species, V. osmolskae, was named in 2008 for skull material from Inner Mongolia, China.

Teeth and partial remains attributed to juvenile V. mongoliensis have also been reported from the Bayan Mandahu Formation, a prolific site in Inner Mongolia, China that is contemporaneous with the Djadochta Formation.

The city centre is situated around the Binnenalster (" Inner Alster ") and Außenalster (" Outer Alster ") both of which were originally formed by damming up the River Alster to create lakes.

Not only is Kurtz's position at the Inner Station a highly envied position, but sentiment seems to be that Kurtz is not deserving of it, as Kurtz only received the appointment by his connections back in Europe.

By this time the manager is there, and expresses a strong desire to turn back-right at the moment that the Inner Station comes into view.

North of Dál Riata, the Inner and Outer Hebrides were nominally under Pictish control although the historical record is sparse.

It is assumed that Pictish must once have predominated in the northern Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides.

The foundational text of Chinese medicine is the Huangdi neijing, or Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, which is composed of two books: the Suwen 素問 (" Basic Questions ") and the Lingshu 靈樞 (" Divine Pivot ").

Inner product spaces generalize Euclidean spaces ( in which the inner product is the dot product, also known as the scalar product ) to vector spaces of any ( possibly infinite ) dimension, and are studied in functional analysis.

Iona () is a small island in the Inner Hebrides off the western coast of Scotland.

In modern times it is the parish church of the Middle Temple | Middle and Inner Temple s, two of the Inns of Court.

During this time, flooding of the Niger River is common, creating the Inner Niger Delta.

Furthermore the year is divided into a wet season from June to September — as summer warmth over Inner Asia creates a low pressure zone that draws in air from the Indian Ocean — and a dry season from October to June as cold temperatures in the vast interior creates a high pressure zone causing dry air to flow outward.

The green mass on the left is the Inner Niger Delta, and on the far left are tributaries of the Senegal River.

An unusual feature of the river is the Inner Niger Delta, which forms where its gradient suddenly decreases.

Inner peace is also the first of four concepts to living life in the rave culture acronym PLUR.

The preprotein is transported through the intermembrane space by small TIMs ( which also acts as molecular chaperones ) to the TIM23 or 22 ( Translocase of Inner Membrane ) at the inner membrane.

The Meseta Central (" Inner Plateau ") is a vast plateau in the heart of peninsular Spain, has elevations that range from 610 to 760 m. Rimmed by mountains, the Meseta Central slopes gently to the west and to the series of rivers that form some of the border with Portugal.

Soay (, ) is an island just off the coast of Skye, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.

" Inner necessity " is, for Kandinsky, the principle of art and the foundation of forms and the harmony of colours.

* June 5 – Ferdinand II, Archduke of Inner Austria, is elected King of Bohemia.

The oldest, called simply the Mongolian script, has been the predominant script during most of Mongolian history, and is still in active use today in the Inner Mongolia region of China.