Under the great leader Chinggis Khan, Mongols gradually took over Chinese land, through braveness, great military tactics, and multiethnic force. In 1279, Mongols defeated Southern Song and took over the land of southern China. The first minority group who controlled the entire Chinese land, Mongol...
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Originally said of pulling a vessel through water with a rope, this expression applies figuratively to one person leading another. This use of take in tow dates from the 18th century. A young lama … took me in tow, and conducted me to all the tents. (James Gilmour, Among the Mongols,...
In April 1927 the government of General Tanaka, a leader of the Japanese militarists, came to power. On two occasions, in 1927 and 1928, Tanaka’s government sent expeditionary forces to Shantung. Japan’s aggressive foreign policy was accompanied by a reactionary upsurge within the country. On...
Cri·me·a (krī-mē′ə, krĭ-) A region and peninsula of southern Ukraine on the Black Sea and Sea of Azov. In ancient times it was colonized by Greeks and Romans and later overrun by Ostrogoths, Huns, and Mongols. Conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1475, the area was annexed by...
With the support of the imperialist powers the Ch’ing government invested complete authority in Yüan Shih-k’ai, the leader of reactionary Chinese landowning and military circles in the north, who instituted military operations against the revolutionary South. In December 1911, Sun Yat-sen, who...
The unification of Mongolia ended in 1204 when Temujin defeated the powerful Naiman clan. Two years later, another kurultai confirmed him as Genghis Khan or universal leader of all Mongolia. Within five years, the Mongols had annexed much ofSiberiaand what is today the modernChinese Xinjiangprovin...
b.A nomadic tribe or group. [Ultimately (via GermanHorde, Polishhorda, and kindred words in other languages of central Europe, with initialh-, of obscure origin) from Ukrainianorda,tribe or army of Mongols and Turkic peoples (as the Golden Horde)from North-Western Turkicordï,encampment, ...
Define Central Asian. Central Asian synonyms, Central Asian pronunciation, Central Asian translation, English dictionary definition of Central Asian. A region of Asia consisting of the landlocked nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenista
his family came from an area close to the Manchu heartlands and his uncles had joined the Manchu; but Wu remained a loyal military commander of the Ming forces. However, when the last Ming emperor died and Wu’s father was brutally murdered by the rebel leader briefly occupying Beijing, he...