• 1A native or inhabitant of Mongolia; a Mongolian.

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  • The cultural and educational level of the Mongols is higher than average among the national minorities of China.
  • The 1200s witnessed yet another invasion, and control went to the Mongols, who ruled until the 1400s.
  • Tribal rivalries meant that every male Mongol was brought up to be able to fight and hunting expeditions formed the ideal training ground.
  • Indeed, some have thought that the manufacture of tofu was originally an adaptation of cheese-making, learned perhaps from the Mongols.
  • He said that even though he was an undercover agent, he preferred to pal around with the Mongols on his days off because he was fond of them.
  • Medieval Baghdad, before its sack by the Mongols, had 36 public libraries when Europe had none.
  • Tradition has it that moon cakes were first used to carry messages to help the Chinese throw off the Mongols in the 14th century.
  • The Mongols were actually ahead of most of their opponents in terms of technology, training and leadership.
  • Although they speak a Turkic dialect, their ancient ancestors may have been Mongols.
  • The result was a steady migration of Mongols into China during the first 100 years of the Ming dynasty.
  • As the death toll from the plague mounted, so did tensions between the warlike Mongols and Italians plying their trade on the Black Sea.
  • According to the census, the total population of Mongols in the United States now stands at about 3,500.
  • They are mainly scattered in Inner Mongolia, living together with the Mongols and Chinese.
  • The Chinese supported the Mongols, who invaded Tibet briefly in 1720.
  • I note above the importance of textiles in spreading the message that the Mongols had created an empire.
  • But Mongols, in turn, became increasingly fascinated by their new subjects.
  • Francis Bacon recognized the importance of the Mongols as a conduit between East and West.
  • The Mongols weren't so much tolerant as they were open, being willing to have all sorts of religions in their empire.
  • They are almost exclusively descendants of the Han, a people believed to be related to the Mongols of Central Asia.
  • Seljuk power was swept away by another Central Asian dynasty, the Mongols, in 1194.

• 2mass noun The language of the Mongols; Mongolian.

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  • They spoke an Altaic language related to Mongol and Turkish, and still constitute a distinct ethnic group in China.

• 3offensive A person with Down's syndrome.

In the 13th century AD the Mongol empire under Genghis Khan extended across central Asia from Manchuria in the east to European Russia in the west. Under Kublai Khan China was conquered and the Mongol capital moved to Khanbaliq (modern Beijing). The Mongol empire collapsed after a series of defeats culminating in the destruction of the Golden Horde by the Muscovites in 1380

• 1Relating to the people of Mongolia or their language.

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  • Genghis Khan, the Mongol leader, died in 1227 but the Mongols resumed their attacks on the Han Sung in 1230.
  • In the remnants of the Abbasid empire after the Mongol invasions three new empires were flourishing: Ottoman Turks, Safavid Persians and the Moghuls of India.
  • As is the case in the description of many imperialistic civilizations, the Mongol dynasty, which ruled China in the thirteenth century, must have attracted Marco's interest much more than the Chinese subjects.
  • Because of Mongol devastation and subsequent Tatar raids, the Eastern Ukrainian lands were relatively uninhabited.
  • Most Kyrgyz people speak the Kyrgyz language, which is a distinct Turkic language with Mongol influences.
  • The professor and expert on Kubla Khan and Mongol history argues that Chinese ships during the early Mongol period were the best in the world.
  • The political power and territorial control of Muscovy expanded greatly under the four-decade reign of Ivan III, who died in 1505 after routing the Mongol armies.
  • Dramatic seasonal variations coupled with movements, conflicts, and alliances of Turkic and Mongol tribes caused the people of Central Asia often to be on the move.
  • Because of that success, he was given a wide range of roles to play, from a Mongol leader to Russian hero to a German officer.
  • The Muscovite tsars rose to power during Mongol rule not by fighting the Golden Horde, but conspiring against other Russian princes.
  • So a Mongol formation with a Mongol name survived for 700 years, right into the Soviet period.
  • The Mongol language belongs to the Altaic family, Mongolian group.
  • This is thought to have protected the Russian people from the usual ravages of the Mongol occupation.
  • The domination of the new cabinet by Manchus and their Mongol allies seriously damaged the already weakening links between the Chinese and their foreign rulers.
  • Kublai, a grandson of the Mongol leader Genghis Khan, began leading further Mongol advances in the latter years of the 1250s.
  • Since then, Kiev has survived Mongol invasions, devastating fires, communist urban planning and the massive destruction of World War II.
  • A Mongol army from Central Asia laid siege to Baghdad in 1401, calling on the Caliph to surrender and promising that if he did so, the city would be spared.
  • Starting in the sixth century C.E., the area that is now Slovenia was perpetually invaded by the Avars, a Mongol tribe, who were in turn, driven out by the Slavs.
  • It was the first defeat of a Western power by an Asian one since the days of the Mongol empire.
  • Kalmyks, a largely Buddhist ethnic group of Mongol ancestry, are centered in the Kalmykia region, which neighbors Astrakhan.

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In the 13th century AD the Mongol empire under Genghis Khan extended across central Asia from Manchuria in the east to European Russia in the west. Under Kublai Khan China was conquered and the Mongol capital moved to Khanbaliq (modern Beijing). The Mongol empire collapsed after a series of defeats culminating in the destruction of the Golden Horde by the Muscovites in 1380