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Rise of Genghis Khan Linked to Unusual Rains in Mongolia
2014-03-12 17:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: A conventional historical narrative holds that the rise and expansion of the Mongol Empire -- first under Genghis Khan and, later, his progeny and successors -- were propelled by a deteriorating climate in the Mongolian steppe. Fleeing drought, the narrative runs, Ghengis Khan's Golden Horde pushed west, south and east in a bid for expansion that would someday form the world's largest contiguous empire. Indeed, climate records indicate that the arid, landlocked steppe was seized by decades of...
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