Mongols for Kids - the Mongols in Indian history

Mongols

In the 1100's AD, some people living in Central Asia (modern Mongolia, among other places) began to expand out of where they had been living.

The Mongols invaded Persia and India. Under their king, Genghis Khan, the Mongols took over Northern India for a while.

Some of them went to China. They were very good fighters and they managed to take over China. The Mongols ruled China for about a hundred years, under Genghis Khan's grandson, the great king Kublai Khan.

It was the Mongol conquest of China that opened up communication between China and West Asia, and then to Europe. The Mongols controlled all of Persia and China and northern India. They kept this land so safe that people said that a girl could walk from Persia to China with a bag of gold and be perfectly safe.

The Mongols in China

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