Many wives of this ethnic group's leaders, including Doquz (DOH-kooz) and Sorgaghtani (SOAR-gog-TAH-nee), converted to Nestorian Christianity, which led to negotiations with France over a possible alliance against Muslim states.
Many wives of this ethnic group's leaders, including Doquz (DOH-kooz) and Sorgaghtani (SOAR-gog-TAH-nee), converted to Nestorian Christianity, which led to negotiations with France over a possible alliance against Muslim states. Such an alliance might have helped this group at the Battle of Ayn Jalut, where they instead lost to the Mamluks two years after sacking Baghdad. Their "yoke" in Russia was overthrown by Ivan III, decades after their Yuan Dynasty fell from power in China, where Marco Polo visited one of their leaders. For 10 points, name this group of tribesmen that established a tremendous empire in the Middle Ages behind leaders such as Kublai and Genghis.
Many wives of this ethnic group's leaders, including Doquz (DOH-kooz) and Sorgaghtani (SOAR-gog-TAH-nee), converted to Nestorian Christianity, which led to negotiations with France over a possible alliance against Muslim states.
{Mongol}s (or {Tatar}s)