The legacy of Genghis Khan has been contested between China, Mongolia, and Russia, all three states having significant numbers of ethnic Mongols within their borders, and holding territory that was conquered by Khan.

After the Mongols conquered China and founded the Yuan Dynasty, they used the Chinese gunpowder-based weapons technology in their invasion of Japan ; they also used gunpowder to fuel rockets.

By 1279, the Mongols conquered the Song Dynasty and brought all of China under control of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty.

By 1241, having conquered large parts of Russia, the Mongols continued the invasion of Europe with a massive three-pronged advance, following the fleeing Cumans, who had established an uncertain alliance with King Bela IV of Hungary.

Rocket technology first became known to Europeans following its use by the Mongols Genghis Khan and Ögedei Khan when they conquered parts of Russia, Eastern, and Central Europe.

In the 7th century, after a brief rule under the Turkish Khaganats, it was conquered by the Arabs and then the Mongols and much later, by the Russians.

In 1234, the Jin Dynasty was conquered by the Mongols, who took control of northern China, maintaining uneasy relations with the Southern Song.

During the Yuan and Qing dynasties China was ruled by ethnic Mongols and Manchus respectively after being conquered by them.

The Mongols, before the rule of Kublai Khan, had launched military campaigns as far as Eastern Europe, and had conquered Russia, Siberia, Tibet, Korea, North China, Yunnan, Iraq, Anatolia and Iran.

In 1234, the Jin Dynasty was conquered by the Mongols under the leadership of Ogedei.

For a 20 year period, Van was held by the Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate until the 1240s when it was conquered by the Mongols.

Mongols conquered China fully in 1279, and under their rule the province of Huguang was established, covering Hubei, Hunan, and parts of Guangdong and Guangxi.

It maintained its independence as a Zoroastrian state even after Persia was conquered by Arabs in 8th century and by Mongols in the 13th century.

In the middle of the 14th century, with famine, plagues and peasant revolts sweeping across China, Zhu became a leader of an army that conquered China, ending the Yuan Dynasty and forcing the Mongols to retreat to the Mongolian steppes.

Mongols took control, and in 1279 they conquered all of China, establishing the Yuan Dynasty and set up the equivalent of modern Henan province, with borders extremely similar to modern ones.

The Mongols conquered the region in the 13th century, with local control exercised by warlords until the 1930s.

The Mongols fully conquered the former territories of the Kara-Khitans in 1220.

Despite heavy resistance of their enemies, the Mongols conquered major cities of the Jurchens and made the Bashkirs their ally.

Until 1279, the Chinese were able to use their naval power to defend against the Jin to the north, until the Mongols finally conquered all of China.

It was conquered in 1227 by the Mongols who sacked and destroyed the town, and the rebuilt town became part of China again when Kublai Khan conquered the rest of China.

The Mongols were most famous for their horse archers, but troops armed with lances were equally skilled, and the Mongols recruited other military talents from the cities they conquered.

With the help of their mounted archer s, the Mongols conquered most of Eurasia.

Gediminas extended the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to the east by challenging the Mongols who, at that time, controlled large areas of Rus '.

In the Middle Ages, the Mongol Empire's campaign against China ( then comprising the Western Xia Dynasty, Jin Dynasty, and Southern Song Dynasty ) by Genghis Khan until Kublai Khan, who eventually established the Yuan Dynasty in 1271, with their armies was extremely effective, allowing the Mongols to sweep through large areas.

While Jûzjânî surely exaggerated, the improbably high numbers which he used for both the Mongols and the defenders do give one a sense of the large numbers of machines used at a single siege.

The last large scale invasions were those of the Mongols of 1241, 1290, and 1343.

Indeed, Moscow's eventual dominance of northern and eastern Rus ' was in large part attributable to the Mongols.

The Mongols, led by Genghis Khan ( r. 1206 – 1227 ), initially invaded the Jin Dynasty in 1205 and 1209, engaging in large raids across its borders, and in 1211 an enormous Mongol army was assembled to invade the Jin.

Back in Russia with a large force of Mongols, Yury approached Tver.

Smaller caravans owned by Mongols of the Alashan ( the westernmost Inner Mongolia ) and manned by Han Chinese from Zhenfan, were able to make longer marches ( and, thus, cover longer distances faster ) than the typical Han Chinese or Hui caravans, because the Mongols were able to always use " fresh " camels ( picked from their large herd for just a single journey ), every man was provided with a camel to ride, and loads were much lighter than in the " standard " caravans ( rarely exceeding.

Another advantage of the Mongols was their ability to traverse large distances even in unusual cold winters ; for instance, frozen rivers led them like highways to large urban centers on their banks.

From the Central Asian steppes, horse-based nomads ( Mongols, Turks ) dominated a large part of the continent.

The Secret History of the Mongols mentions Genghis Khan as the leader of all people who live in felt tents, and even today a large share of Mongolia's population lives in, even in Ulaanbaatar.

The Empire had suffered hard from the interregnum ; the Mongols were still at large in the east, even though Timur had died in 1405 ; many of the Christian kingdoms of the Balkans had broken free of Ottoman control ; and the land, especially Anatolia, had suffered hard from the war.

The Ming dispatched a large army against the Mongols the next year.

The city had 430, 000 inhabitants in 2007, increasing with 20, 000 people every year, majority of whom were Han Chinese, with a large minority of Uyghurs ( about 100, 000 ) and smaller numbers of Mongols and Huis.

For several days, the Rus ' pursued the Mongols but became spread out over a large distance.

Meanwhile, Özbeg, the Atabeg of Azerbaijan, saved his capital, Tabriz, and prevented his country's destruction by offering to the Mongols a large amount of money, clothing and horses, which were the Mongols ' best weapons.

The Mongols also had wide ranging knowledge of the geography of Europe and Asia, based in their governance and ruling of much of this area and used this information for the undertaking of large military expeditions.

* Horse Archers armed with composite bows allowed the Mongols to conquer large parts of Asia and Europe in the 13th century.

The Mongols occupied a large part of Georgia.

In addition, Mongolian horses were extremely durable and sturdy, allowing the Mongols to move over large distances quickly, often surprising enemies that had expected them to arrive days or even weeks later.