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Execution of Ambaghai Khan (c. 1156)

On the Mongol Empire map as “Ambaghai Khan betrayed”

c. 1156 — The Tatars deliver the Mongols’ khan to the Jin, who nail him to a wooden mule and leave him to die. His last message, “avenge me,” begins a vendetta that lasts fifty years. The Jin encourage the fighting, paying tribes to raid each other and culling the steppe every few years to prevent any khan from rising.

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Turning point
Chapter
Mongolia before Genghis Khan (chapter 1 of Mongol Empire)
Atlas
The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294
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