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Definition: Mongol from Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

A member of the Asian people who live not only in Mongolia but also in China and parts of the former Soviet Union. They were united as an ‘empire’ in the 13th century under genghis khan, but after his death fragmented into a number of separate chiefdoms. See also golden horde; mogul; tamberlane.

The use of ‘Mongol’ for someone with Down's syndrome, from a supposed similarity of facial features, dates from the 1860s, but is now unacceptable and considered offensive.

Mongol

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Member of any of the various Mongol (or Mongolian) ethnic groups of central Asia. Mongols live in Mongolia, Russia, Inner Mongolia (China), Tibet, and Nepal. The Mongol language belongs to the Altaic family, although some groups of Mongol descent speak languages in the Sino-Tibetan family. The Mongols are primarily pastoral nomads, herding sheep, horses, cattle, and camels. Traditionally they moved with their animals in summer to the higher pastures, returning in winter to the lower steppes. The government of Mongolia now encourages more sedentary forms of pastoralism, and winter quarters are often more permanent. About 60% of the Mongolian population live in felt-covered domed tents known as yurts. Many Mongols are Buddhists. History In the early 13th century, united under Genghis Khan , the Mongols from 1206 to 1226 conquered central Asia, attacked Eastern Europe and established the Mongolian Empire, a rather loosely constructed federation of tribal groups. Divided by his sons at his…
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In 1206, under the leadership of Genghis Khan,...
Nomadic people of E central Asia who overran a vast region in the 13th and 14th centuries. In the early 13th century, Genghis Khan united the different tribes in the areaand established an empire that stretched from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean and from Siberia to Tibet. Genghis Khan's…
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Full text Article Mongols

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(mŏng'gӘlz, –gōlz), Asian people, numbering about 6 million and distributed mainly in the Republic of Mongolia, the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China, and Kalmykia and the Buryat Republic of Russia. Traditionally the Mongols were a predominantly pastoral people, following their herds of…
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Full text Article Mongols

From Encyclopedia of Warrior Peoples & Fighting Groups Full text Article ENTRIES
Mongols
An Asiatic population that conquered from China to Europe between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Mongols, one of the most feared of all warrior populations, were horsemen from the steppes of central Asia. Their reputation is almost completely attributable to one man, Genghis Khan. Born…
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Full text Article Mongol

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Member of any of the various Mongol (or Mongolian) ethnic groups of central Asia. Mongols live in Mongolia, Russia, Inner Mongolia (China), Tibet, and Nepal. The Mongol language belongs to the Altaic family, although some groups of Mongol descent speak languages in the Sino-Tibetan family. The…
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From The Chambers Dictionary
a member of Genghis Khan's clan, or of the various populations under him ( hist ); one of the people of Mongolia, a republic in east central Asia; their language; a member of a broad-headed, yellow-skinned, straight-haired, small-nosed human race, often with an epicanthic fold of skin (otherwise…
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Full text Article Mongol Invasions

From Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present Full text Article A-Z Entries
Mongols were pastoral tribes in eastern Eurasia that, from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries, came to control a large portion of the Eurasian continent. Near the beginning of the thirteenth century, a group of Mongol tribes were united into a powerful confederacy by Temuchin, better…
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Full text Article Mongol Empire

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Empire established by Genghis Khan , a loosely constructed federation of tribal groups extending from Russia to northern China; see Mongol. , History: . Genghis became khan of the Mongol tribes in 1206. Divided by his sons at his death in 1227, Ogotai overcame the Jin and Sun dynasties of China in…
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Full text Article The Mongol Century

From Chinese Architecture: A History
The Mongol empire was unique in Chinese, Asian, and world history. For the first time, all China was ruled by a foreign dynasty, and China was only part of the empire that dynasty ruled. The Mongols had a direct impact not only on continental Asia but as far east as Japan and as far west as Europe. …
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Full text Article Mongols and Il-Khanids

From Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World
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The Mongol Empire, which at its peak stretched from Java to Lithuania, was the creation of Genghis Khan (c. 562/1167–624/1227) and his descendants. They exercised direct rule for over a century in Iran and Transoxania, southern Russia, and China, and in the less accessible heartland of these…
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The Mongol armies invaded China and took control of its northern provinces by 1234. As they attacked the remains of the Sung dynasty in the southern part of China, other Mongol forces invaded Korea. The Mongols had been raiding into Korea since 1231, periodically devastating the country. When the…
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