The Secret History of the Mongols

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The Secret History of the Mongols

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Abstract

After Chingis had made subject to him all the many tribes he set up at the source of the Onan river a white banner with nine pendants and became Great Khan. This was in the year of the Tiger (1206) Chingis said: “I have now assigned their tasks to my sons-in-law and to the ninety-five commanders of a thousand.

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