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Kurultai proclaims Genghis Khan (1206)
On the Mongol Empire map as “The kurultai of 1206”
1206 — At the Onon’s headwaters the assembled peoples raise the white standard of nine tails and proclaim Temüjin Chinggis Khan. The tribes that fought each other for centuries are dissolved into decimal units of one army. The steppe has one owner now.
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- Rise of Genghis Khan (chapter 2 of Mongol Empire)
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- The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294
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