Mongol
The Mongols were a human ethnic group native to Mongolia in east Asia.
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According to one account, the 5th century warlord Attila the Hun was a Mongol. (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...["Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (2011 reference book)"])
In the year 1206, (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac) Temuchin united the clans of Mongolia under his leadership as the Great Khan and set about conquering the nearby regions, becoming known as Genghis Khan. (PROSE: Bunker Soldiers) The Mongol Empire was formed by the confederations of the Keraits, Merkits, Mongols, Naimans, Tatars and Uyghurs. Genghis Khan's forces went on to conquer the Western Xian Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty, the Kara-Khitan Khanate, the Khwarezmid Empire, Georgia and Volga Bulgaria. His armies were notoriously brutal, and his was widely regarded as a genocidal and destructive regime. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac)
The First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara encountered Mongols, then led by Kublai Khan, in China in 1289. (TV: Marco Polo)
In 1346, a Mongol army serving Janibeg Khan besieged the city of Kaffa. As the bubonic plague swept through the army, killing many soldiers, the commander ordered that their diseased corpses be catapulted over the walls and into the city, beginning the Black Death which ultimately killed a third of the population across the entire continent of Europe. (PROSE: Bunker Soldiers [+]Loading...["Bunker Soldiers (novel)"])
