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   Genghis Khan

   Western Xia Dynasty ... In 1227, after defeating the Tangut people, Genghis Khan died (according to The Secret History of the Mongols).
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   History of China

   In the ensuing years China was divided between the Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty and the Tangut Western Xia (西夏). ... Kublai Khan (忽必烈/元世祖), grandson of Genghis Khan (成吉思汗), wanting to adopt the customs of China, established the Yuan Dynasty (元朝).
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   Foreign relations of Imperial China

   The Kingdom of Shu Han in the west conquered the Hmong people to the southwest, then known as the Nanman. ... The Mongol leaders Genghis Khan, Ögedei Khan, Mongke Khan, and Hulagu Khan were able to conquer the Tangut Western Xia and the Jurchen Jin Dynasty in northern China, as well as invaded Korea under the Goryeo Dynasty, turning it into a vassal state that was ruled indirectly.
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   13th century

   1227 — Genghis Khan dies during the prolonged siege of the Western Xia Dynasty capital (located in northwestern China), while the Tangut Western Xia Dynasty falls soon after. ... Most of Asia and Eastern Europe is conquered and incorporated into the Mongol Empire.
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   History of the Song Dynasty

   Although the Song Dynasty was able to defeat further Jurchen invasions, the Mongols led by Genghis Khan, Ögedei Khan, Möngke Khan, and finally Kublai Khan gradually conquered China, until the fall of the Song Dynasty in 1279. ... "Frustrated Empires: The Song-Tangut Xia War of 1038–1044," in Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period, 151–190.
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   History of Mongolia

   | Before Genghis Khan | ... With a purpose of testing the military strength of his state and preparing for a struggle against the Jin Dynasty, Genghis Khaan conquered the Tangut empire Xi-Xia, which pledged vassalage.
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   Western Xia

   Modi sued for peace, which was accepted, but he was then executed by Tolui, the son of Genghis Khan, and the Tangut state was fully incorporated into Mongolian administration. (cf. Kwanten 1974) Rulers of Western Xia
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   Ningxia

   Throughout the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty there were several large cities established in the region, and by the eleventh century the Tangut tribe had established the Western Xia Dynasty on the outskirts of the then Song Dynasty. It then came under Mongol domination after Genghis Khan conquered Yinchuan in the early thirteenth century.
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   Diplomacy

   There was also a triad of warfare and diplomacy between these two states and the Tangut Western Xia Dynasty to the northwest of Song China (centered in modern-day Shaanxi). ... Genghis Khan and the Mongols were well known for strongly insisting on the rights of diplomats, and they would often wreak horrific vengeance against any state that violated these rights.
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    Mongols before Genghis Khan

    | Before Genghis Khan | ... In Gansu and eastern Xinjiang, the Tangut--who had taken advantage of the Tang decline--had formed a state, Western Xia or Xixia (1038-1227), nominally under Chinese suzerainty.

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