What was life like in Mongolia before Genghis Khan?

The Mongol tribes dated back to 100,000 years ago in the stone age. they spent most of it battling each other for dominance through out the bronze and iron age till they started to from alliances with each other to fight the Chinese. By the 3rd century BC, there was evidence of a nomadic culture, Turkic people in tribes which battled with each other and neighbouring cultures. For the next few hundred years the Chinese convinced the Mongols to fight each other so that China would stop being invaded and started to get stronger.








 Archaeological evidence places early stone age people who habited southern Gobi since 100,000 to 250,000 years ago. By the first millennium BC, bronze-working peoples lived in Mongolia. With the appearance of iron weapons by the 3rd century BC, the inhabitants of Mongolia had begun to form tribal alliances and started to threaten and invade China, an already advanced country for the time. Their had also be evidence of Mongols hunting in nomadic tribes in central Asia around the Korean Peninsula in the east. for a few centuries the Mongols fought with each other for more land and hunting grounds till the 12th century when Genghis Khan came to power and united the tribes to conquer most of the known world.


In conclusion, the Mongols weren't always a great military power but a group of savage tribes fight each other for more land and food.
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