1206

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)