Mongol conquestsPolitics and state
Kurultai of 1206
An assembly of the Mongol nobility at the headwaters of the Onon River proclaimed Temüjin great khan under the name Genghis Khan — and so the Great Mongol State came into being.
- Date
- 1206year known
- Place
- Upper Onon Riverapproximate locationtoday: Khentii Province, Mongolia · Central and Northern Asia
- Participants
- Genghis Khan, Mongol Empire
- Threads
- Mongol conquests
- Also known as
- Великий курултай; Провозглашение Чингисхана; Их Монгол Улс
By 1206 Temüjin had subdued the Tatars, Keraites, Naimans and Merkits. The kurultai met in the spring of 1206 at the headwaters of the Onon; its exact location is unknown, so it is marked approximately.
The new khan united the feuding nomadic tribes into a single state and reorganized the army and the administration on a decimal system — units of ten, a hundred, a thousand and ten thousand (tumens), each led by noyans loyal to him. This organization enabled the Mongols to conquer most of Eurasia over the following decades.
Connections
Consequences
- Fall of Zhongdubetween April and June 1215 · East AsiaA united Mongolia begins its foreign conquests
Related events
- Founding of the Delhi Sultanate1206 · South AsiaIn the same year, 1206, the Delhi Sultanate arose in India
- Death of Genghis Khanbetween 18 August and 25 August 1227 · East AsiaThe beginning and the end of Genghis Khan’s reign
- First Battle of Panipat21 April 1526 · South AsiaBabur, founder of the Mughal Empire, was descended from Timur on his father’s side and from Genghis Khan on his mother’s
Same participants
- Siege of BukharaFebruary 1220 · Central and Northern Asiavia Genghis Khan
Meanwhile in the world
Other regions, within 5 years of this event
Western and Central Europe
- Albigensian Crusade1209–1229
Balkans and Anatolia
- Battle of Adrianople14 April 1205
- Sack of Constantinople12–13 April 1204
Africa
- Rock-hewn churches of Lalibelac. 1181 – c. 1221
South Asia
Southeast Asia and Oceania
- Construction of Angkor Thom and the Bayon1181 – c. 1218
Latin America
The same period
Sources
- Wikipedia (English): Genghis Khan
- Wikipedia (English): Kurultai
- Wikipedia (Russian): Чингисхан
- Wikipedia (Russian): Курултай
- Wikipedia (Russian): Монгольская империя
- Ratchnevsky P. Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy / Transl. by T. N. Haining. — Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.