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Muhammad II of Khwarazm
Khwarazmian sultan whose killing of Mongol envoys provoked the Mongol invasion; he fled and died on an island in the Caspian Sea
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After a Mongol caravan and envoys were killed at Otrar, Genghis Khan attacked the Khwarazmian Empire. Bukhara, Samarkand and the other great cities of Central Asia fell.
People who appear alongside
- Genghis Khan1162 – 1227
Founder of the Mongol Empire, born Temüjin, proclaimed Genghis Khan at the kurultai of 1206; he attacked Western Xia, Jin and Khwarazm
- Jalal al-Din Mingburnu1231
Last Khwarazmian sultan, defeated by Genghis Khan on the Indus in 1221; he escaped across the river and resisted for a decade
- Subutai1175 – 1248
General of Genghis Khan and Ögedei, who with Jebe defeated the Rus at the Kalka and was the operational commander of Batu’s European campaign
Themes this person appears in
- The Mongol Conquests1206 – 1294
From the rise of Genghis Khan to the Yuan conquest of the Song — eighty years in which the Mongols swept Eurasia from Goryeo to Hungary